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dirty realism en · NOUN

Etymology

Coined by Bill Buford of Granta magazine in 1983.

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) A North American literary movement that depicts seamy or mundane aspects of ordinary life in spare, unadorned language.
    • It was Maryann Burk Carver who won the bread in those early years while Ray drank, fished, went to school and began writing the stories that a generation of critics and teachers would miscategorize as “minimalism” or “dirty realism.” 2009 November 20, Stephen King, “Raymond Carver’s Life and Stories”, in The New York Times, →ISSN: