Comments on: Top 10 Works of Postmodern Literature http://listverse.com/2009/02/13/top-10-works-of-postmodern-literature/ Ultimate Top 10 Lists - Listverse Mon, 13 Feb 2012 15:08:07 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Foggdood http://listverse.com/2009/02/13/top-10-works-of-postmodern-literature/comment-page-3/#comment-459589 Sat, 11 Feb 2012 23:37:53 +0000 http://listverse.com/literature/top-10-works-of-postmodern-literature/#comment-459589 If you use the word “mensa,” you really ought to spell it correctly. Other than the overhyped Bret Easton Ellis & Beckett’s “The Unreadable,” it’s a good list.

]]> By: theoaklandphenom http://listverse.com/2009/02/13/top-10-works-of-postmodern-literature/comment-page-3/#comment-458921 Thu, 09 Feb 2012 23:47:47 +0000 http://listverse.com/literature/top-10-works-of-postmodern-literature/#comment-458921 My personal top 10 would be:

10. Wittgenstein’s Mistress by David Markson

9. White Noise by Don DeLillo

8. The Pale King by David Foster Wallace

7. Catch-22 by Joseph Heller

6. Underworld by Don DeLillo

5. The Recognitions by William Gaddis

4. Gravity’s Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon

3. JR by William Gaddis

2. Finnegans Wake by James Joyce (there is no apostrophe in Finnegans btw)

1. Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace

Mind you, I haven’t read Naked Lunch nor have I read anything by Beckett besides a couple of plays. I also don’t consider Cormac McCarthy to be postmodern. I enjoyed Fight Club and Survivor, but honestly I just don’t think that Chuck P.’s writing is on the same level as any of the authors I listed other than maybe Markson. He’s a poor man’s Don DeLillo and lately he seems to be trying to compensate for his writing deficiencies through shock value.

]]> By: Reya Mari http://listverse.com/2009/02/13/top-10-works-of-postmodern-literature/comment-page-3/#comment-453715 Sun, 22 Jan 2012 05:29:40 +0000 http://listverse.com/literature/top-10-works-of-postmodern-literature/#comment-453715 Reblogged this on L'ABBATOIR and commented:
I have four out of ten in e-books:
Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable by Samuel Beckett
Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut
Naked Lunch by William S. Burroughs
Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace
I should start reading them.

]]> By: BArry http://listverse.com/2009/02/13/top-10-works-of-postmodern-literature/comment-page-3/#comment-445779 Wed, 28 Dec 2011 04:25:29 +0000 http://listverse.com/literature/top-10-works-of-postmodern-literature/#comment-445779 Loved American Psycho and Fight Club.

]]> By: Sanna http://listverse.com/2009/02/13/top-10-works-of-postmodern-literature/comment-page-3/#comment-439860 Thu, 08 Dec 2011 11:16:56 +0000 http://listverse.com/literature/top-10-works-of-postmodern-literature/#comment-439860 Well what about “One Hundred Years Of Solitude”, where’s Orhan Palmuke’s name?? The list to me is some what confusing. Better give the definition of Postmodernism first.

]]> By: John http://listverse.com/2009/02/13/top-10-works-of-postmodern-literature/comment-page-3/#comment-434406 Wed, 23 Nov 2011 18:49:27 +0000 http://listverse.com/literature/top-10-works-of-postmodern-literature/#comment-434406 I started to read naked lunch based entirely on this sites reccomendation. Damn you JFrater for inflicting this thing on me. It’s awful, don’t belive the hype if you were thinking of picking it up. Has interesting ideas, but they are scattered amongst page after page of demented gibberish.
Sorry, I had to get that out. That aside, I loved Breakfast of Champions. Probably no one reading this is aware they made a movie from BOA, much less a movie starring Bruce Willis. If you read BOA, however, you probably know why it just didnt work as a movie.

]]> By: lisathatcher http://listverse.com/2009/02/13/top-10-works-of-postmodern-literature/comment-page-3/#comment-427539 Sun, 30 Oct 2011 19:16:11 +0000 http://listverse.com/literature/top-10-works-of-postmodern-literature/#comment-427539 Sam Beckett is identified (with admitted difficulty) as where post-modernism started. He was Joyce’s good friend and consciously realized he had come up with Joyce’s opposite in order to have anything powerful to say in literature. Where Joyce was a true modernist (searching for meaning in a depressed world without god), Beckett was a true post-modernist (accepting the meaninglessness of life in a depressed world.) SB is absolutely a post-modern writer.

I wouldn’t have included Ellis here – not because the book isn’t popular – its just not good enough to be on the list.

]]> By: max2 http://listverse.com/2009/02/13/top-10-works-of-postmodern-literature/comment-page-3/#comment-407863 Wed, 10 Aug 2011 08:27:05 +0000 http://listverse.com/literature/top-10-works-of-postmodern-literature/#comment-407863 Check out Dimitris Lyacos’ Z213: EXIT. Originally written in greek in 2009, and therefore not as popular as the ones mentioned here but a groundbreaking and harrowing work nonetheless – the diary of an escapee gradually discovering a new dimension of reality.

]]> By: Paul http://listverse.com/2009/02/13/top-10-works-of-postmodern-literature/comment-page-3/#comment-397736 Tue, 05 Jul 2011 08:37:00 +0000 http://listverse.com/literature/top-10-works-of-postmodern-literature/#comment-397736 The only thing that could improve this article would be the author adding more obscure words.

]]> By: Anon http://listverse.com/2009/02/13/top-10-works-of-postmodern-literature/comment-page-3/#comment-395257 Sat, 25 Jun 2011 01:30:28 +0000 http://listverse.com/literature/top-10-works-of-postmodern-literature/#comment-395257 Lolita gets honorary mention?!

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