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Bloomsbury Hyperbolic Realism: Pynchon & Bolano Late Maximalist Novels

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Hyperbolic Realism examines what comes after postmodernism by exploring the contradiction that while a full picture of the world remains impossible to present, assessing reality from a planetary perspective is now an ethical obligation for contemporary literature. This Bloomsbury Academic study analyses Thomas Pynchon's Against the Day and Roberto Bolano's 2666, focusing on their hyperbolic forms and features including discursive and material abundance, excessive fictionality, and the close intertwining of fantastic and historical genres. The book investigates how narrative doubt and spiralling uncertainty function within these maximalist works, revealing how their formal strategies address the challenges of representing complex global realities in twenty-first century fiction. Essential reading for scholars and students of postmodern literature, science fiction criticism, and contemporary literary theory seeking to understand the evolution of ambitious narrative forms.

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Hyperbolic Realism provides critical analysis of Thomas Pynchon's Against the Day and its hyperbolic forms and narrative strategies.

The book examines Roberto Bolano's 2666 as a maximalist novel that deploys excessive fictionality and material abundance.

Bloomsbury Academic's study explores how fantastic and historical genres intertwine in late twentieth-century literature.

Investigates narrative doubt and spiralling uncertainty as deliberate formal features in contemporary maximalist fiction.

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01 December 2022
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22 November 2020

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