Hyperbolic Realism : A Wild Reading of Pynchon's and Bolano's Late Maximalist Fiction - Samir Sellami

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Hyperbolic Realism

A Wild Reading of Pynchon's and Bolano's Late Maximalist Fiction

By: Samir Sellami

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Paperback | 21 August 2025

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248 Pages

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22.86 x 15.24 x 1.4

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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 Bolano''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 Bolano 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.

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