Publisher's Synopsis
The latest edition in Diaphanes's THINK ART series, which explores the cultural and theoretical impact of artistic processes, Recessional-Or, the Time of the Hammer opens with an essay by McCarthy on recessional time as an aesthetic element and literary device. This essay is followed by an interview with McCarthy, in which he further discusses his own writing process, taking his most recent novel, Satin Island, as the starting point and casting new light on both avant-garde and realist literature.
Praise for Remainder
"An avant-garde challenge. . . . [McCarthy is] one of the great English novelists of the past ten years."-Zadie Smith