Realistic fiction that is characterized by overblown prose and intellectual digressions.
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I wish a speedy death to hysterical realism: It is but a mark of this chaotic age of ours where everyone has become a social critic.
He reacts to this admittedly ungainly thing he calls hysterical realism simply with the desire to go back.
The sources of hysterical realism seem to be a mixture of literary doubt to a broader paranoia that orders the worldview of some writers.
His ontology accepts only real choices, real freedom and real minds: as florid a case of hysterical realism as I have encountered.
The hysterical realism of this passage, its mix of panic and exaggerated irony, is not unselfconscious.
It's not difficult to see how this might also easily apply to modern literature, which ranges from traditional realism, postmodernism to magical realism or hysterical realism.
Definition of hysterical realism in US English:
hysterical realism
noun
Realistic fiction that is characterized by overblown prose and intellectual digressions.
Example sentencesExamples
It's not difficult to see how this might also easily apply to modern literature, which ranges from traditional realism, postmodernism to magical realism or hysterical realism.
The hysterical realism of this passage, its mix of panic and exaggerated irony, is not unselfconscious.
The sources of hysterical realism seem to be a mixture of literary doubt to a broader paranoia that orders the worldview of some writers.
His ontology accepts only real choices, real freedom and real minds: as florid a case of hysterical realism as I have encountered.
He reacts to this admittedly ungainly thing he calls hysterical realism simply with the desire to go back.
I wish a speedy death to hysterical realism: It is but a mark of this chaotic age of ours where everyone has become a social critic.