Conclusion

Chapter 1 opened with Bruno Latour’s claim that the end of the world, the apocalypse, is not destruction, but revelation (2020). This statement has lingered silently throughout the monograph. Indeed, the process of un-worlding traced through the novels under the lens of Uncanny Realism has itself been a gradual revelation, an unveiling of what lies beneath the surface of the reality principle sustaining the capitalist world-ecology: what is concealed behind words such as progress, development, and wealth. What emerges from the tearing of this veil is something profoundly uncanny. And if, as Schelling reminds us, the uncanny is not what remains hidden but what comes to light (Freud 1919 ), then what breaks through the fissures of the capitalist world-ecology is a blinding, estranging luminosity that can no longer be ignored.