Metarealist
adj, noun
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Definitions
Noun
- 1 One who tends to interpret things in ways that go beyond conventional reality.
"Kafka, in my view, is a metarealist, for he takes ordinary events and turns them ever so slightly so that we are obliged to question what reality may be."
- 2 An artist or a poet who follows metarealism, a direction in Russian poetry and art.
Adjective
- 1 Characteristic of, or related to metarealism, a direction in Russian poetry and art.
"With its multiple levels, its elasticity, resilience, and expandability, its ability to extend out of itself and beyond itself, in its visible meta-physicality, space is the major player in metarealist art."
Example
More examples"Kafka, in my view, is a metarealist, for he takes ordinary events and turns them ever so slightly so that we are obliged to question what reality may be."
Etymology
From meta- + realist.
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