Category
page 1Postmodern literature

Thomas Pynchon
American novelist (born 1937)
theatre of the absurd
theatrical genre
postmodern literature
literary form and movement of the twentieth century

The Garden of Forking Paths
1941 short story by Jorge Luis Borges

Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote
short story by Jorge Luis Borges
Ben Marcus
American writer

Against the Day
2006 novel by Thomas Pynchon
McOndo
McOndo is a Latin American literary movement that breaks with the magical realism mode of narration, and counters it with languages borrowed from mass media. The literature of McOndo presents urban Latin American life, in opposition to the fictional rural town of Macondo.

The Yellow Arrow
1998 novel by Victor Pelevin
Stanislav phenomenon
Ukrainian avant-garde art group, 1989–1996
hysterical realism
pejorative term to describe certain realist-genre books