Sterne, Pynchon, Rushdie & "hysterical realism"

[pynchonoid]

[...] Tristram Shandy, for instance, is in
multifarious ways a marvellous book, but it is written
in a tone of such constant high-pitched zaniness, such
deliberate "liveliness", that one finds oneself
screaming at it to calm down a bit. The "hysterical
realism" of such contemporary writers as Pynchon and
Rushdie is the modern version of Sterne's perpetual
excitements and digressions. [...] 

from:

Laughing matters 

James Wood traces the roots of humour and argues that
tragi-comedy was invented by the modern novel 

Saturday April 24, 2004
The Guardian

<http://books.guardian.co.uk/departments/classics/story/0,6000,1201864,00.html>



	
		
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