000165824 001__ 165824 000165824 005__ 20260303131529.0 000165824 020__ $$a978-1-041-06789-4 000165824 0247_ $$2doi$$a10.4324/9781003637097-16 000165824 037__ $$aBOOK-2026-032 000165824 041__ $$aeng 000165824 100__ $$aMartínez-Alfaro, María Jesús 000165824 245__ $$aFragility and (Dis-)Connection in David Szalay’s Turbulence 000165824 260__ $$aLondon; New York$$bRoutledge$$c2025 000165824 300__ $$a211-227 000165824 500__ $$aPostprint 000165824 506__ $$aall-rights-reserved 000165824 520__ $$aTurbulence (2018) is made up of twelve brief sections that deal with flights and the interlinked stories of several travellers. The narrative proceeds in relay-like fashion and exploits the speed and liminality of air travel to powerfully convey a view of our world as increasingly interconnected and of our time as a “homo mobilis era.” This chapter links these features with Transmodernity, and the debate on and reconceptualisation of limits at the core of the network-like mode of thinking that best fits the present age. Turbulence is approached from this perspective by resorting to studies on air travel fiction and translocality in contemporary novels. The characters’ conflicts, which have to do with strained relations and difficulties in communicating with others, are narrated in Szalay’s novel through a type of formal discontinuity and dislocation that has come to the Forefront in recent (fragmented/networked) fiction. The analysis also addresses the ways in which the book’s contents become one with its formal structure in such a way as to invite reflection on whether in a world where we are more connected than ever on a global level, we are perhaps less present to one another, and ultimately feel more fragile and alone. 000165824 540__ $$9info:eu-repo/semantics/embargoedAccess 000165824 773__ $$tTransmodern Literatures in the 21st Century Of(f) Limits 000165824 8560_ $$flplumed@unizar.es 000165824 8564_ $$s308993$$uhttps://zaguan.unizar.es/record/165824/files/BOOK-2026-032.pdf$$zinfo:eu-repo/date/embargoEnd/2027-03-30 000165824 909CO $$ooai:zaguan.unizar.es:165824$$pbooks 000165824 980__ $$aBOOK$$bCAPITULOS