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The Crying of Lot 49
White Noise
Gravity’s Rainbow
Infinite Jest
Slaughterhouse-Five
V.
House of Leaves
Naked Lunch: The Restored Text
The Recognitions
If on a Winter's Night a Traveler
The New York Trilogy (New York Trilogy, #1-3)
Bleeding Edge
Vineland
Cat’s Cradle
Pale Fire
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
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The Big Sleep by Raymond ChandlerThe Maltese Falcon by Dashiell HammettA CLUE LEFT HANGING by C.K. PhillipsFarewell, My Lovely by Raymond ChandlerThe Postman Always Rings Twice by James M. Cain
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The assertion that only sex is power and the arrogation of creativity to the masculine sex and the rendering of all creativity as sexual—this is patriarchal aesthetics. Patriarchal passion sees violent sex as the essential creative act, even aesthetically, through a sort of metaphysical transubstantiation. This is their romantic belief that sex with the Master can produce the artistic spirit in the student. Male creativity is thus born in another, her work is given depth through the violent tran ...more
Somer Brodribb, Nothing Mat(t)ers: A Feminist Critique of Postmodernism

Jorge Luis Borges
The original is unfaithful to the translation.
Jorge Luis Borges

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PoMo and Surreal Fiction Book Club This book club is dedicated to people who enjoy surreal and post-modern fiction and would like t…more
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