More weird books, please! Two prize-winning authors add to the puzzle of the post-post-postmodern novel
- Written by: Emmett Stinson, Associate Professor, Writing and Literature, University of Tasmania
Rythme Joie de Vivre – Robert Delaunay (1930).Public domain, via Wikimedia CommonsWhat superseded literary postmodernism? Many contenders have been proposed: the new sincerity, metamodernism, even late postmodernism. But none of these terms have persisted.
The novel in English may now be dominated by autofiction, but autofiction arguably...