Editorial Note

This book is based on a talk given by Tom McCarthy at the Cafe Voltaire in Zurich on the 8th of December, 2014. The seminar the next day, at the University of Zurich, also included a discussion of Tom McCarthy's newest novel Satin Island. A second reading of this essay along with a further discussion of it took place on the 19th of June, 2015, during a conference on “Imaginations of Disturbance,” organized by Lars Koch and Elisabeth Bronfen at the Technical University, Dresden. All the discussions were transcribed by Georgina Wood.

 

Elisabeth Bronfen