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

Ergodic Literature

62 books — 74 voters

The Detective and The Fool by James McInroy

Detective Fiction: The Theory

71 books — 9 voters

The Consolation of Philosophy by Boethius

Philosophy of Evil by Lars Fredrik Händler Svendsen

The Art of War and Other Classics of Eastern Philosophy by Sun Tzu

books with ‘philosophy’ in title

253 books — 26 voters

Mémoires d'Hadrien by Marguerite Yourcenar

French literature 1950-2000

107 books — 29 voters

Van den vos Reynaerde by Willem die Madocke maecte

Nooit meer slapen by Willem Frederik Hermans

Flemish-Dutch Literary Canon

51 books — 6 voters

Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera

Postmodernist Literature

3 books — 1 voter

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Quotes Tagged “Postmodern”

“ Pod kvazi-mitskim totalitetom tehničke racionalnosti prijeti nam inteligencija bez patosa, inteligencija kojoj nije potreban nikakav jezik koji ima svoj vlastiti smisao jer ionako sve funkcionira bez bilo kakvog proturječja; ta inteligencija ne zna za spomen jer nije ugrožena nikakvim zaboravom: čovjek kao kompjuterizirana inteligencija bez osjetljivosti na patnju i bez morala, ukratko: čovjek kao rapsodija nedužnosti jednoga glatko funkcionirajućeg stroja. Treba li doista to biti čovjek nakon s ...more ”
― Johann Baptist Metz, Memoria passionis: Ein provozierendes Gedächtnis in pluralistischer Gesellschaft

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