Description
Book SynopsisFinance Fictions examines the tension between psychosis and realism in the contemporary finance novel and shows that compared to earlier instances of the genre (Wolfe; Ellis), the 21st-century finance novel (Alger; Harris; Houellebecq; Lerner) develops a new realist approach to a contemporary economy of financial instruments and automated trading.
Table of ContentsIntroduction
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: Economic Defense Systems; Or: On Financial Immunity
Acknowledgments
Notes
Index
