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Hyperbolic realism : a wild reading of Pynchon's and Bolaño's late maximalist novels, Against the day & 2666 by Samir Sellami; is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is Hyperbolic realism : a wild reading of Pynchon's and Bolaño's late maximalist novels, Against the day & 2666 about?
What comes after postmodernism in literature? Hyperbolic Realism engages the contradiction that while it remains impossible to present a full picture of the world, assessing reality from a planetary perspective is now more than ever an ethical obligation for contemporary literature. The book thus examines the hyperbolic forms and features of Thomas Pynchon's Against the Day and Roberto Bolaño's 2666 – their discursive and material abundance, excessive fictionality, close intertwining of fantastic and historical genres, narrative doubt and spiraling uncertainty – which are deployed not as an escape from, but a plunge into reality. Faced with a reality in a permanent state of exception, Pynchon and Bolaño react to the excesses and distortions of the modern age with a new poetic and aesthetic paradigm that rejects both the naive illusion of a return to the real and the self-enclosed artificiality of classical postmodern writing: hyperbolic realism.
Who reads Hyperbolic realism : a wild reading of Pynchon's and Bolaño's late maximalist novels, Against the day & 2666?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Samir Sellami;
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Academic; Bloomsbury
- Published
- 2021
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781501360497
- Category
- nonfiction
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