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
Framed & Hunted by Edward        WilliamsA Very Bad Thing by J.T. EllisonMean Spirited by Nick  RobertsThe Witches of Scotland by Steven P. AitchisonWayward Spirits by Wendy Wang
Transgressive and Bizzaro Fiction
319 books — 131 voters

Infinite Jest by David Foster WallaceSlaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.Gravity’s Rainbow by Thomas PynchonCatch-22 by Joseph HellerThe Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon
Postmodern Genius
508 books — 584 voters

The Monster at the End of this Book by Jon StoneHarold and the Purple Crayon by Crockett JohnsonOlivia by Ian FalconerKnuffle Bunny by Mo WillemsYou Might Be Special! by Kerri Kokias
Playful Picture Books
50 books — 6 voters
Точка нуль by Artem ChekhХто ти такий? by Artem ChekhМузей покинутих секретів by Oksana ZabuzhkoІнтернат by Serhiy ZhadanЗабуття by Tanja Maljartschuk
Ukrainian modern fiction
50 books — 8 voters

Chuck Palahniuk
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

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

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