Hysterical realism
Pejorative term to describe certain realist-genre books / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Hysterical realism[1] is a term coined in 2000 by English critic James Wood to describe what he sees as a literary genre typified by a strong contrast between elaborately absurd prose, plotting, or characterization, on the one hand, and careful, detailed investigations of real, specific social phenomena on the other. It is also known as recherché postmodernism.