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The Return of the Contemporary’s main contribution derives from its ability to connect a diverse array of texts in order to convincingly establish a coherent corpus of novels that address crisis, presentism and the contemporary. The book takes the unique approach of interpreting its corpus as neither cynical nor optimistic, but as the novelists’ means of grappling with the complex emotions of living through abounding crisis and employing literary techniques to consider future horizons.