{"product_id":"hyperbolic-realism","title":"Hyperbolic Realism","description":"\u003cp\u003eWhat comes after postmodernism in literature?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing Plc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54411052679512,"sku":"9781501374555","price":36.5,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9781501374555.jpg?v=1765692040","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/hyperbolic-realism","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}