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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Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

Postmodern Novels

103 books — 113 voters

Open This Little Book by Jesse Klausmeier

KidBox Reads: Postmodern Picture Books

12 books — 12 voters

Autobiography of a Corpse by Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky

The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge by Rainer Maria Rilke

Innovative Fiction

35 books — 9 voters

The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner

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

Style as Text

251 books — 132 voters

There Is No Antimemetics Division by qntm

Persephone in the Late Anthropocene by Megan Grumbling

Existential Horror

23 books — 2 voters

One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez

Postmodern Books according to Linda Hutcheon

38 books — 1 voter

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Quotes Tagged “Postmodern”

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

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“ For official record, announce instructor, the state requires no epic hero. No strive achieve personal celebrity of spotlight and applause. Lectures instructor, the state desires best ideal perform as mediocre. No gain attention showboat. No buffoon. Best effort so occur average. Suppress climbing ego. Become ordinary. Invisible. ”
― Chuck Palahniuk

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