Dr. Samir Sellami
Hyperbolic Realism: A Wild Reading of Pynchon's and Bolano's Late Maximalist Fiction
Hyperbolic Realism: A Wild Reading of Pynchon's and Bolano's Late Maximalist Fiction
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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.
- Publication date: 21 August 2025
- Page count: 248
- Dimensions: Height 226 mm; Width 148 mm; Thickness 14 mm
- Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
- Format: Paperback
- ISBN-13: 9781501374555
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