RaveSlant MagazineThe recurrence of themes and motifs that McCarthy has used to so animate C with the crackling intimacy of a single consciousness are a departure from the metier the author employed in his first novel, Remainder ... But the heart of the book lies in its long and romantic discourses on the unseen entanglements and leitmotifs that run through all of our lives, the way that certain symbols and languages, numbers and codes, ciphers and glyphs manifest to us almost constantly, as if some unknown and unseen entity was communicating with us ... this book is Joycean in its inclusiveness. As if every wayward assumption or secret belief that Serge ever has about himself, that every connection ever forged in his mind was hardwired into the world around him, shuffling in and out of his receptors, reminding him who he is, who he was, what made and makes him. This is McCarthy’s brilliance at work, that ability to deliver the feeling that what was true for Serge is also true for each of us.
