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An exploration of Chabon's career-long fascination with the consolations—and dangers—of the imagination Pulitzer Prize-winning author Michael Chabon has emerged as one of the most daring writers of American fiction in the post-Pynchon era. Joseph Dewey examines how Chabon's narratives have sought to bring together the defining elements of the two principal expressions of the American narrative that his generation inherited: the formal extravagances of postmodernism and the compelling storytelling of psychological realism. Like the audacious, self-conscious excesses of Pynchon and his postmodern disciples, Dewey argues, Chabon's fictions are extravagant, often ironic, experiments into form animated by dense verbal and linguistic energy. As with the probing texts of psychological realism by Updike and his faithful, Chabon's fictions center on keenly drawn, recognizable characters caught up in familiar, heartbreaking dilemmas; enthralling storylines compelled by suspense, enriched with suggestive symbols; and humane themes about love and death, work and family, and sexuality and religion. Evolving over three decades, this hybrid fiction has made Chabon not only one of the most widely

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Author

Chabon, Michael;Dewey, Joseph

Publisher

The University of South Carolina Press

Published

2014

Language

EN

ISBN

9781611173390

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Literary Criticism, Literary Fiction, Humanities

Rating

3.25 / 5 (4 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14