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.

The Crying of Lot 49
Slaughterhouse-Five
White Noise
Infinite Jest
Gravity’s Rainbow
If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler
House of Leaves
Catch-22
Pale Fire
Breakfast of Champions
V.
Cloud Atlas
The New York Trilogy (New York Trilogy, #1-3)
Cat’s Cradle
Naked Lunch: The Restored Text
Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler by Italo CalvinoThe Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
Postmodernist Literature
3 books — 1 voter
House of Leaves by Mark Z. DanielewskiS. by J.J. AbramsThe Unfortunates by B.S. JohnsonThe Raw Shark Texts by Steven  HallIf on a Winter’s Night a Traveler by Italo Calvino
Ergodic Literature
60 books — 63 voters

1984 by George OrwellThe Catcher in the Rye by J.D. SalingerFight Club by Chuck PalahniukSlaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace
Postmodern cult classics
87 books — 99 voters
Autobiography of a Corpse by Sigizmund KrzhizhanovskyCrash by J.G. BallardThe Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge by Rainer Maria RilkeThe Book of Disquiet by Fernando PessoaEmilio's Carnival by Italo Svevo
Innovative Fiction
35 books — 9 voters


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

Don DeLillo
...Take the leap, they said. Live the billionaire's myth of immortality. And why not now, I thought. What else was there for Ross to acquire? Give the futurists their blood money and they will make it possible for you to live forever. The pod would be his final shrine of entitlement. ...more
Don DeLillo, Zero K

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