id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-2824 Postmodern literature - Wikipedia .html text/html 7999 686 59 Burroughs published Naked Lunch in Paris in 1959 and in America in 1961; this is considered by some the first truly postmodern novel because it is fragmentary, with no central narrative arc; it employs pastiche to fold in elements from popular genres such as detective fiction and science fiction; it's full of parody, paradox, and playfulness; and, according to some accounts, friends Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg edited the book guided by chance. This is a common technique in modernist fiction: fragmentation and nonlinear narratives are central features in both modern and postmodern literature. It has been applied, for instance, to the work of Jorge Luis Borges, author of Historia universal de la infamia (1935) is considered a bridge between modernism and postmodernism in world literature.[47] Colombian novelist Gabriel García Márquez is also regarded as a notable exponent of this kind of fiction—especially his novel One Hundred Years of Solitude. ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-2824.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-2824.txt