This is not a recording: Faux-Dickensian (or James Wood's Hysterical Realism Again)

[Mark Kohut]

Yes....I'm on board. Thanks.

On Sun, Aug 17, 2014 at 5:00 AM, Kai Frederik Lorentzen
<lorentzen at hotmail.de> wrote:
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> The novelist Jan Brandt ("Gegen die Welt") claims to write MANIC REALISM, a
> label which is, according to Brandt, the most adequate to grasp the totality
> of description. He differentiates it from 'magic realism' by "extraordinary
> violence" and "unexplainable brutality" that can hit the world any time and
> thus are mixed into reality and fantasy from the very start. The examples he
> gives in addition to his own big novel are "2666" by Bolano and "House of
> Leaves" by Danielewski. Of course, MANIC REALISM sounds - not only, or in
> the first place, because of its resonance with 'magic realism' - much better
> than 'hysterical realism', a label Wood created with pejorative intentions.
> So perhaps MANIC REALISM could indeed be working as a "great phrase" for a
> "new branch of surrealism". Vonnegut, Pynchon ...
>
>> Der Manische Realismus ist ein Begriff, der meines Erachtens am ehesten
>> die Totalität der Darstellung erfasst. Er grenzt sich vom Magischen
>> Realismus, wie man ihn von Gabriel García Márquez kennt, dadurch ab, dass
>> sich im Manischen Realismus Realität und Fantasie mit einer
>> außerordentlichen Gewalt vermischen, mit der unerklärlichen Brutalität, die
>> jederzeit über die Welt hereinbrechen kann.<
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> http://culturmag.de/litmag/jan-brandt-gegen-die-welt-im-interview/35338
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> On 16.08.2014 19:14, Mark Kohut wrote:
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>> You know what I have come to think about this famous Wood labeling?
>> He created a great phrase
>> for some of our current best writers which, with just a little
>> flicking perspectival change, have created
>> a new branch of surrealism. They are better than he says.
>>
>> On Sat, Aug 16, 2014 at 3:29 AM, alice malice <alicewmalice at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
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>>> http://www.newrepublic.com/article/61361/human-all-too-inhuman
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