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URL title: “Now is the Time for Me to Win”: Social Dysfunction and “The New Sincerity” in the Works of George Saunders | Readings
URL description: Over the past two decades, the central conceit at the heart of George Saunders’ work has remained the same: to re-introduce values of compassion and sincerity to American literature. Often he does this by placing resentful antiheroes in bizarre narrative positions where they must learn to appreciate the singularity of all humans. This impulse associates Saunders with The New Sincerity, a loose assemblage of writers who have turned their backs on postmodern irony and cynicism. In this essay, I analyze one sh
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