A Play on Post-isms: The Unnamed Narrator's Quest for Realness in Remainder.

Tom McCarthy's Remainder (2005) is a novel that plays with various themes pertaining to "post-isms." The unnamed narrator's unreal perception is a particular postmodern syndrome. McCarthy's authorial aim is twofold: to appropriate ideas from contemporary literary theorists about unreality as a commo...

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Published in:	Journal of Modern Literature Vol. 49; no. 1; pp. 125 - 140
Main Author:	Yu, Jihuan
Format:	Literary Criticism
Published:	Indiana University Press Fall2025
Subjects:	Remainder (Book) McCarthy, Tom, 1952- Narrators in literature Literary realism Postmodernism (Literature) 20th century (Literary period)
Online Access:	View this record in EBSCOhost