...David Sergeant Abstract This essay examines the relationship between novelistic form and a historical moment shaped by new technologies in Dave Eggers's The Circle (2013) and Kim Stanley Robinson's Red Moon (2018). In both, the novel form is itself positioned as a major counterforce against...

... fleshly, immediate presence. We can recognize a similar process in Dave Eggers’s What Is the What, a biographical novel about a former child refugee from the Sudan now living in the United States. Like Oryx, Eggers’s hero is a person marked by extreme experi- ences of suffering who travels toward...

... chooses examples from across the literary map: Yu, a writer of literary science fiction; Lerner, associated with autofiction; and Egan, frequently grouped with David Foster Wallace and Dave Eggers as a practitioner of the “New Sincerity.” Yu's 2010 novel How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe...

... the relationship between new technologies and economic and political forms as these manifest themselves in novels by Dave Eggers and Kim Stanley Robinson. The extent to which the novel is able to position itself as a counterforce—what Sergeant describes as “the constructive potential of aesthetic form in relation...

... is represented as a “universal . . . feature of human being” (136). Partial fictions like Dave Eggers's What Is the What: The Autobiography of Valentino Achak Deng: A Novel and Kazuo Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go , Elliott suggests, at once dramatize and deny the ways in which existential threats...

... not the writer’s job ‘to tell us how somebody felt about something, it’s to tell us how the world works’” (qtd. in Wood). Citing novelists like David Foster Wallace and Dave Eggers, she comments: “[T]hese are guys who know a great deal about the world. They understand macro-microeconomics, the way...