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Appendix – I Postmodernist elements in the novel The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon : An analysis
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Pynchon’s, Thomas |
| Copyright Year | 2014 |
| Abstract | Thomas Pynchon’s novel The Crying of Lot 49 is one of the earliest writings in what is generally considered to be postmodern literature. The novel has a strange and convoluted style of narrative that is purported to confuse the reader. The narrative builds on already existing body of popular fiction, television stories, films and plays and therefore falls in the category of metafiction. Pynchon makes the narrative deliberately complex and difficult and the reader is left wondering about the identity of characters (subjects) and time – space reference. The world of objective social reality is converted into fictional reality and the characters struggle with memory to establish their identities. The loss of a unitary subject consciousness, the paradox of retaining historical memory in the wake of a passionate desire to discard unpleasant events, the fragmentation of the narrative and the characters reflect to some extent, elements of the postmodern in the novel. |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://shodhganga.inflibnet.ac.in/bitstream/10603/36437/2/appendix.pdf |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
