/lit/ - Literature

I never write, I'm high, I'm drunk, ne nice.

As I plung into my daily post-modernist activity (online job searching) I think of the absurdity of it all. The 'there is no
free will' thing I mean. How could a universe so frighteningly beautiful and intense encompass in it's space-time continuum
such a mollecular mess engaging in such a farcical commotion.

>>6044999
"Postmodernism is a reaction against modernism, and a leaping back to behind the modernist moment – just like postmodern architecture, where the term comes from – to create art out of different styles.

It represents, in my view, a determination to vault over all the quicksand of the 20th century, in order to gain the seemingly safer ground provided by a cut-and-paste job on the styles and modes that antedated it.

It's a retreat from the hard-edged insights of modernism itself. It’s an attempt to have the cachet of reinventing the traditional structure of narrative prose fiction without actually having to do the hard work implied by modernist insight."

-- Will Self