61 Essential Postmodern Reads
Compiled by a blogger at the LA Times, this is a very interesting list of 61 top recommended postmodern reads, deemed postmodern based on having one or more set characteristics:
- Author is a character
- Self-contradicting plot
- disrupts/plays with form
- comments on its own bookishness
- plays with language
- includes fictional artifacts, like letters
- blurs reality and fiction
- includes historical falsehoods
- overtly references other fictional works
- more than 1,000 pages
- less than 200 pages
- postmodern progenitor
I’ve read:
- Margaret Atwood’s “The Blind Assassin”
- Mark Danielewski’s “House of Leaves”
- Milan Kundera’s “The Book of Laughter and Forgetting”
- Haruki Murakami’s “The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle”
- William Shakespeare’s “Hamlet”
- (currently reading) David Foster Wallace’s “Infinite Jest”
(via Kottke)
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