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03917aam a2200529 i 4500 001 9AE83E3AFFE911EBB6EAFDEE22ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20210818010020 008 200206t20202020nyu b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2019058751 020 $a 0231185170 020 $a 9780231185172 020 $a 0231185162 020 $a 9780231185165 035 $a (OCoLC)1127655554 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d ERASA $d YDX $d CHVBK $d OCLCO $d BDF $d GUA $d IaU $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a e-fr--- 050 00 $a PQ683 $b .W36 2020 082 00 $a 843/.9209355 $2 23 100 1 $a Wampole, Christy, $d 1977- $e author. 245 10 $a Degenerative realism : $b novel and nation in twenty-first-century France / $c Christy Wampole. 264 1 $a New York : $b Columbia University Press, $c [2020] 300 $a xiii, 278 pages ; $c 23 cm 490 1 $a Literature now 520 $a "A new strain of realism has arisen in France. Novels that contain it represent diverse fears-immigration and demographic change, radical Islam, feminism, new technologies, globalization, American capitalism, and the European Union-but these books, often best-sellers, share crucial affinities. In their dystopian visions, the collapse of France, Europe, and Western civilization is portrayed as all but certain and the literary mode of realism begins to break down. Above all, they depict a degenerative force whose effects on the nation and on reality itself can be felt. Examining key novels by Michel Houellebecq, FreÌdeÌric Beigbeder, AureÌlien Bellanger, Yann Moix, and other French writers, Christy Wampole identifies and critiques this emergent tendency toward "degenerative realism." She considers the ways these writers draw on social science, the New Journalism of the 1960s, political pamphlets, reportage, and social media to construct an atmosphere of disintegration and decline. Wampole maps how degenerative realist novels explore a world contaminated by conspiracy theories, mysticism, and misinformation, responding to the internet age's confusion between fact and fiction with a lament for the loss of the real and an unrelenting emphasis on the role of the media in crafting reality. In a time of widespread populist anxieties over the perceived decline of the French nation, this book diagnoses the literary symptoms of today's reactionary revival"-- $c Provided by publisher. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-259) and index. 505 0 $a Introduction: What Is Degenerative Realism? -- Demography and Survival in Twenty-First-Century France -- Endarkenment from the Minitel to the Internet -- Real-Time Realism, Part 1: Journalistic Immediacy -- Real-Time Realism, Part 2: Le roman post-pamphleÌtaire -- Conclusion: Novel as Nation: Forms of Parallel Decay. 648 7 $a 2000-2099 $2 fast 650 0 $a French fiction $y 21st century $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a Literature and society $z France $x History $y 21st century. 650 0 $a Realism in literature. 650 0 $a Dystopias in literature. 650 0 $a Despair in literature. 650 7 $a Despair in literature. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00891413 650 7 $a Dystopias in literature. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00900374 650 7 $a French fiction. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00934302 650 7 $a Literature and society. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01000096 650 7 $a Realism in literature. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01091237 651 7 $a France. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01204289 655 7 $a Criticism, interpretation, etc. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411635 655 7 $a History. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411628 776 08 $i Online version: $a Wampole, Christy, 1977- $t Degenerative realism $d New York : Columbia University Press, 2020. $z 9780231546034 $w (DLC) 2019058752 830 0 $a Literature Now. 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20231117015319.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=9AE83E3AFFE911EBB6EAFDEE22ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search