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Transrealism: the first major literary movement of the 21st century? Anonymous Fri Oct 24 05:23:32 2014 No.5627629 [Reply] [Original]

http://www.theguardian.com/books/booksblog/2014/oct/24/transrealism-first-major-literary-movement-21st-century

>Transrealism argues for an approach to writing novels routed first and foremost in reality. It rejects artificial constructs like plot and archetypal characters, in favour of real events and people, drawn directly from the author’s experience. But through this realist tapestry, the author threads a singular, impossibly fantastic idea, often one drawn from the playbook of science fiction, fantasy and horror. So the transrealist author who creates a detailed and realistic depiction of American high-school life will then shatter it open with the discovery of an alien flying saucer that confers super-powers on an otherwise ordinary young man.

What does /lit/ think? How is this any different from magic realism?

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 24 05:28:45 2014 No.5627633 >a detailed and realistic depiction of American high-school life will then shatter it open with the discovery of an alien flying saucer that confers super-powers on an otherwise ordinary young man. wow almost like a fucking 'plot' of some sorts

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 24 05:38:48 2014 No.5627643 >Both sci-fi and realism provide a measure of comfort – one by showing us the escape hatch from mundane reality, the other by reassuring us the reality we really upon is fixed, stable and unchanging. >the reality we really upon

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 24 05:39:38 2014 No.5627644 >>5627633 … Tom Green was just an ordinary kid, at an ordinary school, with an ordinary life. Until. One day. Something happened. That. Would. Change. His. World. blaring horns noise, flying saucer appears

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 24 06:01:07 2014 No.5627671 >>5627629 wow anime

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 24 06:04:57 2014 No.5627675 >>5627629 Is that a joke? Nothing new about that. Author must have in their whole life, read books from no more than one time period. (in addition to being dumb, etc.)

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 24 06:09:43 2014 No.5627682 >>5627629 Sounds like the plot to most popular YA novels.

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Anonymous Fri Oct 24 06:21:34 2014 No.5627691
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>it's like realistic fiction with realistic characters in a realistic setting, except something AMAZING happens that changes their lives forever!
>like a boy lives a normal life in a normal high school, but then he's abducted by aliens and gains superpowers!
>This is a radical departure from everything that came before it, representing a fundamental shift in blah blah blah i didn't finish high school and hollywood is my only exposure to literature

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Anonymous Fri Oct 24 06:24:51 2014 No.5627694

This sounds like a pseudo-documentary until it becomes a pretext for dumb sci-fi. They could perhaps have thought this through before putting it on paper.

Anyway, it's branding, as always. US news outlets are too proficient at branding for their own good.

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Anonymous Fri Oct 24 06:26:01 2014 No.5627696
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Whoa transrealism sounds legit. Can't believe the guardian figured this out before me. It's like dialectics but with tom Wolfe and jay mcinenary as thesis anti thesis.

Thanks op

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 24 06:34:50 2014 No.5627713 File: 140 KB, 484x760, damien.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Some of Damien Walter's other articles.

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 24 06:39:04 2014 No.5627720 >>5627713 Oh no

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 24 06:43:43 2014 No.5627727 >>5627629 Is this a joke?

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 24 06:43:44 2014 No.5627728 File: 24 KB, 400x321, image.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>5627713

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 24 07:22:05 2014 No.5627789 >>5627644 Underrated post.

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 24 07:23:19 2014 No.5627792 >>5627713 >yet more SJW pandering dropped

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 24 07:25:50 2014 No.5627801 >>5627792 Transrealism Transexual

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 24 07:37:10 2014 No.5627817 >>5627727 This whole board is a joke.

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 24 08:20:55 2014 No.5627864 File: 93 KB, 408x300, Screen Shot 2014-10-24 at 5.20.36 AM.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] http://www.theguardian.com/books/booksblog/2014/sep/19/young-adult-fiction-speaks-to-all Damien Walter everybody!!!

>>	AnelCrest !m9jxTLhLcw Fri Oct 24 08:43:21 2014 No.5627899 File: 28 KB, 512x512, 1ef.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >2014 >Still trying too hard to be original

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Anonymous Fri Oct 24 08:44:42 2014 No.5627902
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>Stop trying to talk SF into being worthy. It just is. Labels aren't going to help at all. Everything is science fiction, whether it recognises it or not. What are you made of? What are you breathing? I read a piece in Ars Technica recently about why Man Men is science fiction. Of course it is. So is Eastenders. So is Great Expectations. Stories which acknowledge this don't need a genre name, and certainly not a silly one with trans in it. If the authors are good enough (Ballard, Vonnegut, Dick, Pynchon, Carter, Le Guin, Banks) then the stories are worth reading. Simple as that