Postmodern

The term postmodern literature is used to describe certain characteristics of post-World War II literature (relying heavily, for example, on fragmentation, paradox, questionable narrators, etc.) and a reaction against Enlightenment ideas (that is, reforming society and advancing knowledge) implicit in Modernist literature.

Postmodern Books

The New York Trilogy (New York Trilogy, #1-3)

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Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

Breaking the Bias of English by Vivian Probst

If on a Winter's Night a Traveler by Italo Calvino

The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera

Postmodernist Literature

4 books — 2 voters

Музей покинутих секретів by Oksana Zabuzhko

Ukrainian modern fiction

51 books — 8 voters

Max Havelaar, or the Coffee Auctions of the Dutch Trading Com... by Multatuli

De donkere kamer van Damokles by Willem Frederik Hermans

The Discovery of Heaven by Harry Mulisch

Nooit meer slapen by Willem Frederik Hermans

Dutch Literary Canon

123 books — 93 voters

The Witches of Scotland by Steven P. Aitchison

Transgressive and Bizzaro Fiction

319 books — 130 voters

White Collar Holler

129 books — 97 voters

Detective Fiction: The Theory

66 books — 6 voters

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Quotes Tagged “Postmodern”

“ No single thing abides; and all things are fucked up. ”
― Philip K. Dick, The Transmigration of Timothy Archer

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“ Anya looked upon Nin admirably. Having him as a partner-in-crime—if only on this one occasion, which she hoped would only be the start of something more—was more revitalizing than the cheap thrills of a cookie-cutter shallow, superficial romance, where the top priority was how beautiful a person was on the outside. ”
― Jess C Scott, The Other Side of Life

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