Tintin and The Secret of Literature - Tom McCarthy

Tom McCarthy's engagingly written and playful exploration of Tintin's various tombs, crypts, crevices, ships, halls, urns, crannies and, yes, even clits, is by turns frustrating and entertaining. At the very least the book is to be appreciated for its palpable and infectious affection for Hergé's boy reporter. I was left slightly disappointed, however, by the book's failure to engage with the particularities of Hergé's medium and in what ways it might diverge from the literature to which it holds 'the secret.'