"Jon," from "In Persuasion Nation," shows Saunders in full-on Baudrillardian-bobble mode:īecause what is her rush, I was feeling, why is she looking so frantic with furrowed anxious brow like that Claymation chicken at LI 98473 who says the sky is falling the sky is falling and turns out it is only a Dodge Ramcharger which crushes her from on high and one arm of hers or wing sticks out with a sign that says March Madness Daze ? The thesis was anything but new, but it's rarely been as hilariously driven home. If I told you that George Saunders' new collection of stories is full of talking snack cakes, you would probably be like, "Oh, good, no one captures the morally ambiguous inflection of the talking snack cake like George Saunders." In "Pastoralia" (2000) and "In Persuasion Nation" (2006), Saunders reconceived the short story as a souped-up electric sheep, channeling the advertising slogans and self-help jargon that define our sensory-overloaded mediascape: reality as the most unreal reality show of all.
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