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Hyperrealism of Advanced Technology and its Influences on Human Identity in Jennifer Egan's The Candy House

Najlaa Hayyawi Abbar

Volume: 13 Issue: 2 2023

Abstract:

Hyperreality as a significant concept of Jean Baudrillard signifies a situation when what is real and what is imaginary are merged together and thus, there is no clear difference amid where one finishes and the other one starts. This study intends to analyze Jennifer Egan's The Candy House in order to examine the hyperreality of technology and its influence on human identity. In this novel technology and social media play very important roles and can be blamed for loneliness of human beings. Egan has presented the unreal as more truthful than reality itself, and by doing so, she has dragged her readers into the world of diversion and distraction attained through simulation.

DOI: http://doi.org/10.37648/ijrssh.v13i02.046

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