Postmodernism


The Crying of Lot 49
Slaughterhouse-Five
White Noise
Gravity’s Rainbow
Infinite Jest
If on a Winter's Night a Traveler
Simulacra and Simulation
Postmodernism or the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism
The Name of the Rose
The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge
House of Leaves
The New York Trilogy (New York Trilogy, #1-3)
Pale Fire
Breakfast of Champions
Cat’s Cradle
Karel ende Elegast by Unknown .Van den vos Reynaerde by Unknown .Oeroeg by Hella S. HaasseNooit meer slapen by Willem Frederik HermansLiederen by Hadewijch
Flemish-Dutch Literary Canon
51 books — 5 voters
The World as Will and Representation, Volume I by Arthur SchopenhauerJacques Derrida by Claire ColebrookJean Baudrillard by Douglas KellnerCapitalist Realism by Mark FisherSimulacra and Simulation by Jean Baudrillard
Cuck Philosophy books
36 books — 1 voter

Order in the Universe by Robert C. CumbowOn Set with John Carpenter by Kim Gottlieb-WalkerThey Live by Jonathan LethemThey Live by D. Harlan WilsonJohn Carpenter, The Prince of Darkness by Gilles Boulenger
John Carpenter Criticism
22 books — 5 voters

If on a Winter's Night a Traveler by Italo CalvinoHouse of Leaves by Mark Z. DanielewskiSlaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.The Name of the Rose by Umberto EcoThe Princess Bride by William Goldman
Metafiction
443 books — 579 voters
Finnegans Wake by James JoyceUlysses by James JoycePhenomenology of Spirit by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich HegelGravity’s Rainbow by Thomas PynchonCritique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant
REALLY, REALLY DIFFICULT BOOKS
260 books — 364 voters

Flannery O'Connor
Let me make no bones about it: I write from the standpoint of Christian orthodoxy. Nothing is more repulsive to me than the idea of myself setting up a little universe of my own choosing and propounding a little immoralistic message. I write with a solid belief in all the Christian dogmas.
Flannery O'Connor, The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O'Connor

Jim Jarmusch
Nothing is original. Steal from anywhere that resonates with inspiration or fuels your imagination. Devour old films, new films, music, books, paintings, photographs, poems, dreams, random conversations, architecture, bridges, street signs, trees, clouds, bodies of water, light and shadows. Select only things to steal from that speak directly to your soul. If you do this, your work (and theft) will be authentic. Authenticity is invaluable; originality is non-existent. And don’t bother concealing ...more
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