%0 Journal Article 
%A Bolaño Quintero, Jesús
%T Reconstructing Realism in Post-Postmodern Narrative: Dave Eggers's A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
%D 2021
%@ 2386-3935

%U http://hdl.handle.net/10498/26481
%X By analysing Dave Eggers’s autofictional work A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, this article attempts to reveal
the role of this author in the post–postmodern narrative of the turn of the millennium. Following in the wake of David Foster Wallace,
Eggers’s solution to overcome the problems created by postmodernism is a kind of writing based on honesty. Through a rebirth of the
author, the objective of Eggers’s New Sincerity is the democratization of narrative in order to create a sensibility network aimed at
ending the solipsism brought about by postmodern linguistic relativism. However, this new sensibility is reminiscent of pre–postmodern
fundamentalism. The use of meta–metafiction based on the use of neo–Romantic irony enables Eggers to create an escape valve that
allows for the creation of a metamodern oscillation–as described by Tim Vermeulen and Robin van den Akker.
%K Dave Eggers
%K A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
%K post–postmodern fiction
%K irony
%K New Sincerity
%K metamodernism
%~ Universidad de Cádiz