RT journal article
T1 Reconstructing Realism in Post-Postmodern Narrative: Dave Eggers's A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
A1 Bolaño Quintero, Jesús
A2 Filología Francesa e Inglesa
K1 Dave Eggers
K1 A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
K1 post–postmodern fiction
K1 irony
K1 New Sincerity
K1 metamodernism
AB By analysing Dave Eggers’s autofictional work A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, this article attempts to revealthe 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 theauthor, the objective of Eggers’s New Sincerity is the democratization of narrative in order to create a sensibility network aimed atending the solipsism brought about by postmodern linguistic relativism. However, this new sensibility is reminiscent of pre–postmodernfundamentalism. The use of meta–metafiction based on the use of neo–Romantic irony enables Eggers to create an escape valve thatallows for the creation of a metamodern oscillation–as described by Tim Vermeulen and Robin van den Akker.
PB UNIV COMPLUTENSE MADRID, SERVICIO PUBLICACIONES
SN 2386-3935
YR 2021
FD 2021
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10498/26481
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10498/26481
LA eng
DS Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Cádiz
RD 07-nov-2026