Mike McCormack’s style of post-mortem modernism

The legacies of modernism in Irish literature have frequently been approached through the prism influence, as writers are often compared with James Joyce, Flann O’Brien and Samuel Beckett. This essay reconsiders how we can critically approach modernist by closely examining style Mike McCormack’s one-sentence novel Solar Bones (2016). I argue that responds to economic crash 2008 performing a kind ‘post-mortem’ on forms narration temporality, which is reflected written. Building David James’ framework for tracing Modernist Futures (2012), consider self-reflexively explores various styles posthumous narrator means portray social historical fallout Celtic Tiger. Consequently, post-mortem exemplifies attend particular formal, affective political qualities animate contemporary engagements modernism’s legacies, while also allowing us relation ‘rejuvenated experimental pulse’, McCormack puts it, twenty-first century literature.