C - Couverture rigide

McCarthy, Tom

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0224090208 ISBN 13 : 9780224090209

Editeur : Jonathan Cape, 2010

Synopsis

C follows the short, intense life of Serge Carrefax, a man who - as his name suggests - surges into the electric modernity of the early twentieth century, transfixed by the technologies that will obliterate him.

Born to the sound of one of the very earliest experimental wireless stations, Serge finds himself steeped in a weird world of transmissions, whose very air seems filled with cryptic and poetic signals of all kinds. When personal loss strikes him in his adolescence, this world takes on a darker and more morbid aspect. What follows is a stunning tour de force in which the eerily idyllic settings of pre-war Europe give way to the exhilarating flight-paths of the frontline aeroplane radio operator, then the prison camps of Germany, the drug-fuelled London of the roaring twenties and, finally, the ancient tombs of Egypt.

Reminiscent of Bolaño, Beckett and Pynchon, this is a remarkable novel - a compelling, sophisticated and sublimely imaginative book uncovering the hidden codes and dark rhythms that sustain life.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Tom McCarthy's work has been translated into more than 20 languages and adapted for cinema, theatre and radio. His third novel C was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, the Walter Scott Prize and the European Literature Prize and his fourth, Satin Island, was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and the Goldsmiths Prize. In 2013 he was awarded the inaugural Windham-Campbell Literature Prize by Yale University. McCarthy is also author of the study Tintin and the Secret of Literature, and of the essay collection Typewriters, Bombs, Jellyfish. He lives in Berlin.

À propos de la quatrième de couverture

C opens with the birth of its subject, Serge Carrefax, and the beginnings of wireless radio. As Serge is brought into the world, caul-shrouded, to a mother insensible with chloroform, his father is erecting complex networks intended to boost his ability to send messages across the airwaves.
It is a confluence that will have a profound effect on Serge, his obsession with its codes and possibilities taking him from the classroom to the clear skies above the trenches of the First World War, from the indignities of a prisoner-of-war camp to the drug-riddled streets of London ? and ultimately to where ancient meets modern in Twenties Egypt.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Jonathan Cape
• Date d'édition: 2010
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0224090208
• ISBN 13: 9780224090209
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 320
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• Personne responsable: non disponible