The Road to McCarthy
Tom McCarthy reckons he has the “huge honour of being interviewed about Remainder by the greatest publisher of the twentieth century, the person who brought us Beckett, Burroughs, Robbe-Grillet, Simon, Trocchi, Ionesco and, frankly, just about every writer worth reading for the last fifty years. The event’s timed to coincide with the UK paperback launch […]
3:AM Brasil: Literature 2000
The idea of a generation is very deceiving. It makes us understand it as a group, when, in fact, the group, doesn’t exist; what exists are writers who were publishing their novels around the same period, and this, doesn’t really mean much. Today, when diversity is the main characteristic of the fiction with writers following very different paths from each other, the idea of a generation is a vestige of a time when one would still believe in groups and collective projects.
Italo Mariconi and Flávio Carneiro debate the Brazilian Offbeat Generation.