Time and again we hear about a new desire for the real, about a realism which is realistic set against an avant-garde which isn’t, and so on.
In his new essay over at the London Review of Books, Tom McCarthy looks at the new meanings of terms such as “the real”, “realism” and “reality” within the literary environment.
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