A review by litprof
Remainder by Tom McCarthy

slow-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? No
  • Loveable characters? No
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

1.0

I wish this book could have been a DNF by page 50, but my MA student is writing her thesis on it, so I had to push through the pain. Sure, one can read into it commentary on Baudrillardian simulacra or Freudian melancholia, but it’s not worth the mind-numbingly dumb and repetitive novel, with gratuitous sexism and racism.
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