P: "Hysterical realism" then and then again

[alice wellintown]

Not exactly what Mr Wood has in mind with the characterization of the
hysterial realists. Surely Mr. P has not given us modern characters
like those in the early mondern works. The hysterical world of P's
works, and this is more the case with the latter works than with the
earlier ones, is not the world of Henry Adams, the one Mr Strindberg
and the early modenists fictionalized, but a Post WWII world, even a
Post-1950s world, then a post cold war world. This is a world that is
not in Kansas anymore, may not even exist, at least not on any map
Google or Apple can GPS for us.

On Tue, Jan 1, 2013 at 5:22 PM, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Playwright Strindberg, an early modernist, almost all would say, said this
> in 1888 (of his characters in Miss
> Julie): "Since they are modern characters, living in an age of transition
> more urgently hysterical at any rate than
> the age that preceded it, I have drawn them as split and
> vacillating....conglomerations of past and present....
> scraps from books and newspapers"......
>
> Any relevance for one of our favorite hysterical realists, I'm asking ya,
> Mr. Wood?