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.

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

The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera

Postmodernist Literature

3 books — 1 voter

Max Havelaar, or the Coffee Auctions of the Dutch Trading Com... by Multatuli

De donkere kamer van Damokles by Willem Frederik Hermans

The Discovery of Heaven by Harry Mulisch

Nooit meer slapen by Willem Frederik Hermans

Dutch Literary Canon

122 books — 92 voters

Ergodic Literature

60 books — 63 voters

Mémoires d'Hadrien by Marguerite Yourcenar

French literature 1950-2000

90 books — 28 voters

White Collar Holler

128 books — 96 voters

There Is No Antimemetics Division by qntm

Persephone in the Late Anthropocene by Megan Grumbling

Existential Horror

23 books — 2 voters

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Quotes Tagged “Postmodern”

“ Here we are in the century of information, that is to say the unformed. Every kind of literature will be journalistic, with a science for ballast. ”
― Julien Torma

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“ 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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