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But when they can't be overheard, the slaves use an eloquent, highly intellectual form of English, for example discussing "proleptic irony".

Bolaño’s admirers will find in these themes and players a satisfying proleptic glimpse of his picaresque masterpiece, 1998’s “The Savage Detectives” — a circuitous hunt for vestiges of an underground “visceral realist” literary movement and its muse, the poet Cesárea Tinajero, which starts in Mexico City and detours to the Sonora Desert, Paris, San Diego, Barcelona and elsewhere.

With Israeli independence, “‘Zion’ ceased to be a proleptic ideal or symbol and began to be an archaeological site with borders to defend.”

For Levinson, author of the stunning and proleptic novel “Tell Me How This Ends Well,” dystopia, at least Jewish dystopia, is practically a preexisting condition, which is what drew him to set his novel in a near-future America wherein the state of Israel no longer exists and millions of refugees have relocated to the U.S., provoking virulent anti-Semitism and homegrown pogroms.

He says things like “That’s when the Kabram boy just got out there and spilled the durn beans,” and also talks of “proleptic decay and decrepitude.”