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TINTIN AND THE SECRET OF LITERATURE

Tom McCarthy

For Chris and Melissa McCarthy

CONTENTS

Title Page

Dedication

Acknowledgements

1 R/G

2 They’re Pining for You in Borduria: Fascism and Friendship

3 Place of Dead Men, Here: From Château to Crypt and Back Again

4 Castafiore’s Clit

5 Adonis and His Counterfeit

6 A Thing in the Grip of Gravity, or, GLING, BLING, CLING

7 Pirates!

Suggestions for Further Reading

Index

About the Author

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

There are several people without whom this book would not have been what it is, or simply not have been

at all. I am grateful to George Miller and and Sajidah Ahmad at Granta Books for helping to shape it; to

Jonny Pegg and Shaheeda Sabir at Curtis Brown for helping secure funds to write it; to Simon Critchley

for sharing his thoughts on simulacra, humour and economics in contexts both formal and in-; to my library

pal Sally O’Reilly for putting me on to Paul de Man’s essay ‘The Rhetoric of Temporality’; to my mother,

Penny, for first exposing me to Hergé’s work when I was seven and the many people in dialogue with

whom I have developed my ideas about Tintin, literature, or both since then; and to Eva Stenram, for

being great.