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http://therumpus.net/2015/10/against-realism/
Do you think Hysterical Realism has gone too far? That people writing in the Post-Pynchon/DFW world (e.g. Zadie Smith) are writing needlessly complex novels that pursue absurdity, humor, and irony instead of more traditional storytelling elements. And do you think that this is detrimental to the art of storytelling on the whole? Also, is it thus worthwhile to laud authors like Ferrante, who seem to buck this sentiment with hyper- rather than hysterical-realism?
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Short answer: nah.
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>>7612762
'real life' in the 21st century is needlessly complex and absurd as fuck. Fictional narratives have become integrated into everyday life, media shapes the course of events instead of simply recording them. If you want to describe the world as it exists today, you gotta deal with these things somehow.
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>>7612762
Don't start to view fiction through the lens of these small scale isms. Leave trends and fads where they belong: in blog-o-sphere chatterings and manuscripts tucked under brooklyn apartment air mattresses
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