Literature as a Deadly Performance Artwork
Literature as a Deadly Performance Artwork

Summary/Abstract: Starting from Tom McCarthy’s statement that his literature should rather be regarded as performance artwork, as well as from his artistic manifesto, this paper analyzes the novel Remainder, paying attention to the elements that compose an alternative reality, articulated in the narrator’s own post-traumatic visions. The focus is on the tension between the original trauma and its obsessive re-enactments, and on the subjective constructions of narrative and visual explanations of the apparent accidental events.

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