Crackpot Realism

[Mark Kohut]

In an online fragment of a book about some "modern writers',
the (minor) novelist Melvin Jules Bukiet---one of whose books
pays overt homage to GR, I remember---called writers like
Thomas Pynchon CRACKPOT REALISTS long before Wood
found his descriptive adjective for REALIST. @1995.

Besides exaggerated "reality" in description and characterization, he
found the use of coincidence
and chance instead of true-to-life plot movements to be a major part of
his meaning with the term.

I like it better than HYSTERICAL REALISM (which shows Wood's
bias via verbal associations of Hysterical.
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