Spectral Streams of Post-Consciousness in Mike McCormack’s Solar Bones (2016)

This article analyses Mike McCormack’s novel Solar Bones (2016) which narrates in a run-on sentence Marcus Conway’s everyday life within the rural context of a 2008 Celtic Tiger Ireland about to collapse. Drawing upon the narratological precepts of experimental writing, especially the use of streams...

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Published inES review (Internet) no. 42; pp. 81 - 103
Main Author Altuna-García de Salazar, Asier
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Universidad de Valladolid 11.11.2021
Subjects
Celtic Tiger
escritura experimental
experimental writing
flujo de conciencia
hauntology
hauntología
Mike McCormack
stream of consciousness
Tigre Celta
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Summary:This article analyses Mike McCormack’s novel Solar Bones (2016) which narrates in a run-on sentence Marcus Conway’s everyday life within the rural context of a 2008 Celtic Tiger Ireland about to collapse. Drawing upon the narratological precepts of experimental writing, especially the use of streams of consciousness, and Derrida’s hauntology, this article argues that McCormack’s novel charts tensions of coherence and collapse in post-Celtic Tiger fiction. The narration takes place within a post- perspective as Marcus’s ghost brings it into existence. The experimentation with streams of post-consciousness and spectrality provides McCormack with valid aesthetic mechanisms to respond in fiction to Celtic Tiger concerns.
ISSN:2531-1646
2531-1654
2531-1654
DOI:10.24197/ersjes.42.2021.81-103