{"product_id":"hyperbolic-realism-samir-sellami-9781501374555","title":"Hyperbolic Realism: A Wild Reading of Pynchon's and Bolaño's Late Maximalist Fiction","description":"\u003cp\u003eWhat comes after postmodernism in literature? \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eHyperbolic Realism\u003c\/i\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eAgainst the Day\u003c\/i\u003e and Roberto Bolaño's \u003ci\u003e2666\u003c\/i\u003e - 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Samir Sellami\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1501374559\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781501374555\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Bloomsbury Academic\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/21\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 248\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.74lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.52d","brand":"Samir Sellami","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48485473255679,"sku":"9781501374555","price":39.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_5100a59f-5a0d-4819-9306-bd16df512031.jpg?v=1778049709","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/hyperbolic-realism-samir-sellami-9781501374555","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}