Facts about Postmodern Literature

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   Magical realism, most associated with Latin American fiction, is closely linked to postmodern literature through authors like Gabriel García Márquez and Jorge Luis Borges.

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   Thomas Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow, a landmark of postmodern literature, won the National Book Award in 1974.

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   Fragmented narrative structure and the blending of high and low culture are defining characteristics of postmodern literature, distinguishing it from modernism.

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   Unreliable narration is a hallmark of postmodern literature, seen in works like Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita and John Fowles's The French Lieutenant's Woman.

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   Postmodern literature frequently employs metafiction, a technique where the text self-consciously draws attention to its own status as a constructed artifact.

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