Postmodern literature
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Postmodern literature is a genre of literature characterized by the use of metafiction, unreliable narration, self-reference, and intertextuality, and which often presents both historical and politica
American author and publisher Dave Eggers is one of several contemporary authors who represent the latest movement in post-modern literature which some have deemed post-postmodernism or post-irony.
Thomas Pynchon
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Thomas Ruggles Pynchon Jr. is an American novelist. He is known for his dense, complex works of postmodern fiction, which are distinguished by their paranoid tone, absurd humor, and references to hist
Postmodern literature
…As a style of experimental literature, it emerged strongly in the United States in the 1960s through the writings of authors such as Kurt Vonnegut, Thomas Pynchon, William Gaddis, Philip K. Dick, Kathy Acker, and John Barth. Beginning within or alongside the counterculture of the 1960s, postmodernists often…
Pynchon in his 1953 yearbook image
Pynchon, aged 16, in his high school senior portrait
V. (1963)
Gravity's Rainbow (1973)