This thesis explores the three novels by Tom McCarthy—C, Remainder, and Satin Island—which comment on the state of contemporary literature after the decline of modernism and postmodernism. Using Georges Bataille’s concept of formlessness, as described in his article “L’informe,” I argue that McCarthy’s work brings literature down to its base materialism. While still constrained by limitations of the medium, McCarthy blends multiple genres, anti-humanist ideas, and matter to dispel idealism and become as formless as possible. His novels confront literature’s relationship with technology, eventually pushing literature to embrace its inherent inauthenticity.