Postmodern literature

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Robert Musil, The Man Without Qualities. Robert Musil, The Man Without Qualities …it even seemed to Ulrich that there was desperately little use in doing away with the guns here and the kings there, and in diminishing stupidity and knavery by any greater or lesser piece of progress; for the measure of all that is disagreeable and bad is instantly made up again by new forms of the same thing, as though the world were always sliding back with the one foot while it takes a step forward with the…

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The “literary versus genre” debate rages on. This article from Current Affairs discusses the universal acclaim received by Nathan Hill’s 2016 debut novel The Nix. It’s a pos…

A selection of notable works of literature originally written in languages other than English, published between 1940 and 2000

Nonsensical narratives and unreliable narrators are just a few of this postmodern literature's key elements. Learn more at Atomic-Ranch.com.

Read 853 reviews from the world’s largest community for readers. 'A scandalously under-recognised contemporary master' – The Wall Street Journal I am Not S…

The key difference between conformation and configuration is that the conformations of the same molecule rapidly interconvert whereas the configurations of

Characteristics of Postmodern Literature Unusual use of the narrator’s voice to position the reader to read the book in particular ways and through a particular character’s eyes. Indeterminacy in plot, character, setting, which requires the reader to construct some of the text and meanings.

Something Happened by Joseph Heller @ Canterbury Tales Bookshop * Book exchange * #Guesthouse * #Cafe ** #Pattaya. Bob Slocum was living the American dream. He had a beautiful wife, three lovely children, a nice house, and all the mistresses he desired.

The Mezzanine is the story of one man's lunch hour. Pondering life's littlest questions - why does one shoelace always wear out before the other? Whatever happened to the paper drinking straw - our narrator interrogates the inner-workings of corporate living as he traipses his way down escalators to the first floor and through the mundaneness of office life. Mixing humour with the existentialism that surrounds all our working lives, The Mezzanine is a classic work of modern American…

Dystopian literature is more of a genre than a formal movement. As it works to mirror the fears and challenges of their time, critiquing oppressive systems, unchecked technology or environmental degradation. #literature#modernism #postmodernism #socialcriticism #readtoreform #dystopia

The Anti-Aesthetic: Essays on Postmodern Culture: Hal Foster [Editor]; Jurgen Habermas [Contributor]; Rosalind Krauss [Contributor]; Craig Owens [Contributor]; Gregory L Ulmer [Contributor]; Fredric Jameson [Contributor]; Edward W Said [Contributor]; Kenneth Frampton [Contributor];