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Is it worth to read post-modern literature? What are the best books to start reading it?

>> No.20457723

>>20457705
I'd take it over the greeks

>> No.20457762

>>20457723
What are your favorite post-modernist works?

>> No.20457873

>>20457762
Breakfast of Champions

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>>20457873
Do you like Infinite Jest?

>> No.20459027

>>20457762
just read pretty much everything by John Barth, William Gaddis, William Gass, Donald Barthelme, Barry Hannah, Joseph McElroy, Gilbert Sorrentino, Evan Dara, Gary Lutz, Ben Marcus (only his first two works), Don Delillo, Harry Mathews, Thomas Pynchon, David Foster Wallace, John Hawkes, and Robert Coover.

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>>20457705
Do you like reading fun books?

>> No.20459758

>>20459027
To each his own, but I’d take the Greeks over them easily, and I’m not even a big reader of the Greeks

>> No.20459869

>>20459027
Got recommendations for postmodernists from the UK or Europe in general(besides the ones you've already mentioned)?
I'm not fond of contemporary American authors.

>> No.20459880

>>20459027
Also any authors similar to John Hawkes but less smutty

>> No.20459888

>>20457705
They were what got me into literature. My taste has changed since then and I can’t see me ever picking one up again. They feel too detached from their work

>> No.20459924

Here is a list of post-modern novels that I recommend and really love. There are some that I still haven't read (like Gaddis or Gass), but they're on my list.
This list goes from the easier reads to tougher reads:
>Slaughterhouse 5 by Kirk Vonnegut
>Sabbath's Theatre by Philip Roth
>60 Stories by Donald Barthelme
>The New York Trilogy by Paul Auster
>Possession: A Romance by A.S Byatt
>Waterland by Graham Swift
>Americana by Don Delillo
>The French Lieutenant's Woman by John Fowles
>Libra by Don Delillo
>Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy
>Lost in the Funhouse by John Barth
>Giles Goat Boy by John Barth
>Mason and Dixon by Thomas Pynchon
>Gravity's Rainbow

>> No.20459959

>>20459027
>Evan Dara

>> No.20461674

>>20459924
for whom is the funhouse fun tho