Both genres are exhausted tbh
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We are all exhausted.
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Drop the vocabulary and step out of the car
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This made me literally laugh out loud. I'm saving that line for future use.
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It could be argued that so-called 'postmodern' literature (Pynchon, Gaddis, Carter, etc.) was, in some ways, just properly updated realism, but that no one could (or would) acknowledge it as such
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Is why Phillip Roth said Trump outstrips the imagination
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I think he’s saying the exact opposite of that
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But that was true before the genre started, so it can't be responsible for its exhaustion.
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Another way to parse it, though, is that readers in late 17th c. were new to the form, so forgave much, but through repetition forgave less. Form improved to meet growing expectations (Middlemarch!), reached point of diminishing returns abt 1960, according to the French.
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