Metarealist

adj, noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 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. 2
    An artist or a poet who follows metarealism, a direction in Russian poetry and art.
Adjective
  1. 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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