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
Seven Beyond by Stella AtriumThe Consolation of Philosophy by BoethiusPhilosophy of Evil by Lars Fredrik Händler SvendsenThe Art of War and Other Classics of Eastern Philosophy by Sun TzuPhilosophy as Passion by Karen Vintges
books with ‘philosophy’ in title
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1984 by George OrwellCatch-22 by Joseph HellerDeath of a Salesman by Arthur MillerAnimal Farm by George OrwellThe Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
White Collar Holler
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Beautiful Macabre by Thomas NegovanThe Art of the B-Movie Poster by Adam NewellIt's a Man's World by Adam ParfreyTrash by Jacques BoyreauGraphic Thrills by Robin Bougie
A Bad Case Of The Sposdas
226 books — 4 voters
A Thousand Plateaus by Gilles DeleuzeSpecters of Marx by Jacques DerridaDifference and Repetition by Gilles DeleuzeDiscipline and Punish by Michel Foucault
Post-structuralist philosophy
4 books — 2 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

Thomas Pynchon
On the doorsill the Paranoids, as we leave milk to propitiate the leprechaun, had set a fifth of Jack Daniels.
Thomas Pynchon, The Crying of Lot 49

David Foster Wallace
Nel momento in cui riconosceva quello che c'era su una cartuccia provava la sensazione carica d'ansia che ci fosse qualcosa di meglio su un'altra cartuccia e che potenzialmente se lo stava perdendo. Poi si rese conto che avrebbe avuto tutto il tempo di godersi ogni cartuccia e capì intellettualmente che non aveva senso provare il panico di perdersi qualcosa. ...more
David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest

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