Sellami's detective work here is just as carefully considered as the authors whom he chooses to recognize as exceptional … As usual, [Sellami's] perspicacity gives new meaning to the notion of the subtle yet sinister simulacra within which we all currently seem to dwell.

Critics At Large

[This book] offers rewarding ideas about the ways in which the writers coming along in the wake of postmodernism - or those who have lived through the various stages of postmodern literature, like Pynchon and Bolaño - have both embraced and rejected conventional realism as they work to portray the “strangely familiar, yet inherently excessive and uncontainable experiences” of life in the Anthropocene.

Journal of the Midwest Modern Language Association

Samir Sellami writes with brilliant clarity and makes difficult arguments easy to follow. Philosophers and critical theorists should study his techniques.

Kathryn Hume, Edwin Erle Sparks Professor Emerita of English, Pennsylvania State University, USA

Samir Sellami has done all of us maximalists a sweet service by giving us a profound meditation on eschewing the limits of literary decorum with his masterful new book.

Donald Brackett, Embodied Meanings