English Dictionary

hysterical realism

名詞

不可算名詞

(literature) A literary genre typified by a strong contrast between elaborately absurd prose, plotting, or characterization, on the one hand, and careful, detailed investigations of real, specific social phenomena on the other.

日本語の意味

（文学）詳細で具体的な社会現象の調査と、誇張された荒唐無稽な文章、構成、または人物描写との強烈な対比を特徴とする文学ジャンル。

She criticized the novel's reliance on hysterical realism, arguing that its elaborately absurd prose and plotting clashed with the author's careful investigation of real social problems.

彼女はその小説が、誇張された不条理な文体や筋立てと、現実の具体的な社会現象に関する綿密な調査とを強く対比させる文学ジャンルに依拠していると批判し、その派手な要素が綿密な社会分析を損なっていると主張した。

意味（1）

(literature) A literary genre typified by a strong contrast between elaborately absurd prose, plotting, or characterization, on the one hand, and careful, detailed investigations of real, specific social phenomena on the other.

This is not magical realism. It is hysterical realism. […] The conventions of realism are not being abolished but, on the contrary, exhausted, and overworked.