An essay by contemporary British artist and writer Tom McCarthy is dedicated to the cult comic book series “The Adventures of Tintin.” Reading into the texts, characters and drawings of the Belgian artist Hergé, who in 1929 invented the resilient reporter with a tuft, McCarthy tries to find the answer to the question of what literary fiction is and how contemporary art functions in conditions of multiple media. A brilliant investigation into the psychology of creativity in the twentieth century from one of the active art figures of the twenty-first century. Tom McCarthy (1969) – artist, critic and writer. The author of three novels, including Remainder (Russian translation of When I Was Real) and C (shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2010), several installations, some of which are in the permanent collection of the British Arts Council, General Secretary of the semi-fictional art association “International Necronaut Society” (INS). As a visiting teacher, he lectured at Central Saint Martins School of Art, the Royal College of Art, London Consortium and Columbia University.