04268nam 22006735 450 991048020180332120210715031136.00-8232-8143-40-8232-7919-710.1515/9780823279197(CKB)4340000000252486(MiAaPQ)EBC5247458(StDuBDS)EDZ0001921799(DE-B1597)555080(DE-B1597)9780823279197(OCoLC)1021035705(EXLCZ)99434000000025248620200723h20182018 fg 0engurcnu||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierFinance Fictions Realism and Psychosis in a Time of Economic Crisis /Arne De BoeverFirst edition.New York, NY :Fordham University Press,[2018]©20181 online resource (267 pages) illustrations0-8232-7916-2 Includes bibliographical references and index.Front matter --Contents --Introduction --1. Revisiting The Bonfire of the Vanities --2. Psychotic Realism in (American) Psycho --3. Financial Realism in The Fear Index --4. The Financial Universe (After Meillassoux) --5. Michel Houellebecq, Finance Novelist --6. Financing the Novel: Ben Lerner’s 10:04 --Conclusion --Acknowledgments --Notes --IndexFinance Fictions takes the measure of what it means to live in a world ruled by high finance by examining the tension between psychosis and realism that plays out in the contemporary finance novel. When the things traded at the center of the economy cease to be things at all, but highly abstracted speculations, how do we come to see the real? What sorts of narrative can accurately approach the actual workings of a neoliberal economy marked by accelerating cycles of market crashes, economic and political crisis, and austerity? Revisiting such twentieth-century classics of the genre as Tom Wolfe's Bonfire of the Vanities and Bret Easton Ellis’s American Psycho, De Boever argues that the twenty-first century is witnessing the birth of a new kind of realistic novel that can make sense of complex financial instruments like collateralized debt obligations, credit default swaps, and digital algorithms operating at speeds faster than what human beings or computers can record. If in 1989 Wolfe could still urge novelists to work harder to “tame the billion-footed beast of reality,” today’s economic reality confronts us with a difference that is qualitative rather than quantitative: a new financial ontology requiring new modes of thinking and writing. Mobilizing the philosophical thought of Quentin Meillassoux in the close reading of finance novels by Robert Harris, Michel Houellebecq, Ben Lerner and less well-known works of conceptual writing such as Mathew Timmons’ Credit, Finance Fictions argues that realism is in for a speculative update if it wants to take on the contemporary economy—an “if” whose implications turn out to be deeply political. Part literary study and part philosophical inquiry, Finance Fictions seeks to contribute to a new mindset for creative and critical work on finance in the twenty-first century.Money in literatureFinance in literatureFinancial crises in literatureAmerican fiction20th centuryHistory and criticismElectronic books.Biopolitics.Finance Novels.Finance.Marxism.Neoliberalism.Popular fiction.Psychosis.Realism.Speculative Realism.Wall Street.Money in literature.Finance in literature.Financial crises in literature.American fictionHistory and criticism.813.009/3553De Boever Arneauthttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut1028454DE-B1597DE-B1597BOOK9910480201803321Finance Fictions2444475UNINA