{"id":5287,"title":"C","dimensions":"23 x 15.2 cm, 310 p, language: English, publisher: London: Jonathan Cape, Random House, ISBN: 9780224091251","date_begin":"2010-01-01","material":"ink, paper","art_status_id":13,"legal_status_id":47,"category_id":26,"platform_id":1,"deleted":false,"asset_count":1,"stream_count":0,"collection":"Collection M HKA, Antwerp","cached_tag_list":"artist novel","publishing_process_id":1,"annotation":"","date_end":null,"reference":"B 2024/686","stream_count_app":26,"permalink":"c","description_ca":null,"short_description_ca":null,"description_it":null,"short_description_it":null,"cached_primary_asset_url":null,"cached_actor_names":null,"hide_from_json":false,"prev_platform_id":null,"description_uk":null,"short_description_uk":null,"description_tr":null,"short_description_tr":null,"mhka_works":true,"category":{"en":"Book","nl":"Boek","fr":"Livre"},"poster_image":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/mhka_ensembles_production/assets/public/000/010/691/large/Artistnovel_006.jpg?1342085053","poster_credits":"(c)image: M HKA","translations":[{"locale":"en","short_description":"","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLiterary synopsis\u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u0026#39;\u0026#39;Tom McCarthy\u0026rsquo;s novel, \u003cem\u003eC\u003c/em\u003e, is set in the early 20th Century and follows the life of Serge Carrefax, who is raised on the grounds of a school for the deaf. From a young age, Serge is exposed to a variety of developing technologies\u0026mdash;particularly wireless radio\u0026mdash;by his father, an amateur inventor. The book goes on to trace Serge\u0026#39;s maturation as he goes to a sanatorium for treatment of an intestinal illness, serves as an aviator in WWI, and then moves to London and Egypt after the war. \u003cem\u003eC\u003c/em\u003e intentionally never delves into the psychological states of its characters, preferring an aesthetic posthumanism that results in obsessive observations of everyday objects, and, most importantly, technological artefacts, which are rendered in almost pornographic detail. Serge (whose name is a pun on an electric surge) is an affectless narrator, who even seems unfazed by his sister\u0026rsquo;s death, and after having served in WWI, notes that \u0026mdash;instead of being shell-shocked\u0026mdash; he actively enjoyed the War (late in the novel, Serge drops out of a drawing class because he cannot master perspective\u0026mdash;i.e. he lacks \u0026lsquo;depth\u0026rsquo;). In focusing on modern systems and developing technologies, \u003cem\u003eC\u003c/em\u003e attempts to show how the globalised networks of our contemporary world were already in place at the beginning of the 20th Century\u0026#39;\u0026#39;.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e- Emmett Stinson\u003c/p\u003e"},{"locale":"nl","short_description":"","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLiteraire synopsis\u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u0026#39;\u0026#39;De roman \u003cem\u003eC\u003c/em\u003e van Tom McCarthy speelt zich af in de vroege 20ste eeuw en volgt het leven van Serge Carrefax, die opgroeit op het domein van een dovenschool. Van jongsaf brengt Serges vader, een amateur-uitvinder, hem in aanraking met een scala aan technologi\u0026euml;n in ontwikkeling \u0026ndash; waaronder vooral de draadloze radio. Het boek volgt verder Serges ontwikkeling: hoe hij naar een sanatorium moet voor de behandeling van ziektes van de ingewanden, als vliegenier dient in de Tweede Wereldoorlog en na de oorlog naar Londen en Egypte trekt. Met opzet graaft \u003cem\u003eC\u003c/em\u003e op geen enkel moment in de psychologie van de personages: er is gekozen voor een esthetisch posthumanisme dat resulteert in obsessieve observaties van alledaagse voorwerpen en, bovenal, technologische artefacten, die in haast pornografisch detail worden weergegeven. Serge (een pun op het Engelse woord \u0026lsquo;an electric surge\u0026rsquo;, of \u0026lsquo;een elektrische stoot\u0026rsquo;) is een gevoelloze verteller, die zelfs onbewogen lijkt bij de dood van zijn zus. Na zijn dienst in de Tweede Wereldoorlog stelt hij dat hij - in plaats van getraumatiseerd te zijn \u0026ndash; actief genoten heeft van de oorlog. Verderop in de roman moet Serge een tekenles opgeven omdat hij perspectief niet meester kan worden: het ontbreekt hem aan diepte. Door de focus op moderne systemen en technologi\u0026euml;n in ontwikkeling probeert \u003cem\u003eC\u003c/em\u003e te tonen hoe de geglobaliseerde netwerken van onze hedendaagse wereld er al waren in het begin van de 20ste eeuw.\u0026#39;\u0026#39;\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e- Emmett Stinson\u003c/p\u003e"},{"locale":"fr","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"ru","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"de","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"es","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"el","short_description":"","description":""}],"actors":[{"id":1864,"name":"Tom  McCarthy","category":{"en":"Author","nl":"Auteur","fr":"Auteur"}}]}