Postmodernism


The Crying of Lot 49
Slaughterhouse-Five
White Noise
Gravity’s Rainbow
Infinite Jest
If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler
Simulacra and Simulation
Postmodernism or the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism
The Name of the Rose
The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge
House of Leaves
The New York Trilogy (New York Trilogy, #1-3)
Pale Fire
Breakfast of Champions
Cat’s Cradle
Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.House of Leaves by Mark Z. DanielewskiPale Fire by Vladimir NabokovJohn Henry Days by Colson WhiteheadThe Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon
postmodern lit
13 books — 1 voter
Karel ende Elegast by UnknownVan den vos Reynaerde by UnknownOeroeg by Hella S. HaasseNooit meer slapen by Willem Frederik HermansLiederen by Hadewijch
Flemish-Dutch Literary Canon
51 books — 5 voters

Max Havelaar, or the Coffee Auctions of the Dutch Trading Com... by MultatuliDe donkere kamer van Damokles by Willem Frederik HermansThe Diary of a Young Girl by Anne FrankThe Discovery of Heaven by Harry MulischNooit meer slapen by Willem Frederik Hermans
Dutch Literary Canon
122 books — 91 voters
Postmodernismi teooria ja postmodernistlik kultuur by Janek KraaviSimulaakrumid ja simulatsioon by Jean BaudrillardHumanitaarteaduste metodoloogia by Marek TammKriitilise teooria käsiraamat by Simon MalpasPostmodernsusest lastele by Jean-François Lyotard
Postmodernism
6 books — 1 voter

Mason & Dixon by Thomas PynchonTyll by Daniel KehlmannMilkman by Anna BurnsVineland by Thomas PynchonThe Notebook, The Proof, The Third Lie by Ágota Kristóf
Postmodernist Historical Fiction
26 books — 4 voters
Finnegans Wake by James JoyceUlysses by James JoycePhenomenology of Spirit by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich HegelGravity’s Rainbow by Thomas PynchonCritique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant
REALLY, REALLY DIFFICULT BOOKS
261 books — 364 voters

Brian Celio
Postmodernism has turned into this devil's vortex where no matter what you do, your neck will be turned and your face shoved into a foreign example, and worse, no matter what you say, despite the context, it will be considered a postmodern device. That's the danger of postmodernism: it poses itself as something that can't be trumped, something you can’t escape. It continually mocks your efforts for the sake of its name. I know even this will be seen as another postmodern bullet, and no matter wh ...more
Brian Celio, Catapult Soul

Christopher Hitchens
The Postmodernists' tyranny wears people down by boredom and semi-literate prose. ...more
Christopher Hitchens

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