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
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor DostoevskyThe Illuminatus! Trilogy by Robert SheaNeuromancer by William GibsonA Scanner Darkly by Philip K. DickCatch-22 by Joseph Heller
Paranoiacore
12 books — 2 voters

If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler by Italo CalvinoHouse of Leaves by Mark Z. DanielewskiSlaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.The Name of the Rose by Umberto EcoThe Princess Bride by William Goldman
Metafiction
442 books — 578 voters

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
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

Mark Fisher
Fukuyama’s thesis that history has climaxed with liberal capitalism may have been widely derided, but it is accepted, even assumed, at the level of the cultural unconscious. It should be remembered, though, that even when Fukuyama advanced it, the idea that history had reached a ‘terminal beach’ was not merely triumphalist. Fukuyama warned that his radiant city would be haunted, but he thought its specters would be Nietzschean rather than Marxian. Some of Nietzsche’s most prescient pages are tho ...more
Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?

Harold Pinter
There are no hard distinctions between what is real and what is unreal, nor between what is true and what is false. A thing is not necessarily either true or false; it can be both true and false.
Harold Pinter

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