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Postmodern fiction and the problem of definition : a study of Milan Kundera's The unbearable lightness of being and Gabriel Garcia Marquez's One hundred years of solitude
Author
Yeo, Serene May Ying
Supervisor
Murphy, Cornelius Anthony
Abstract
This thesis acknowledges, at the outset, the intrinsic ambiguity of postmodernism as well as the problem of ascertaining what can be legitimately defined as a postmodern work of fiction. The novels used - Milan Kundera's The Unbearable Lightness of Being and Gabriel Garcia Marquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude - are both highly acclaimed works that have been attracted much critical study. Both novels, however, manifest in their own ways, the problem of how to define a literary work as postmodern.
This thesis establishes first, the postmodern nature of both novels, before addressing the aspects that renders the categorization ambiguous. The problem of defining postmodern fiction is also reconsidered, in the thesis's conclusion, as is the future of postmodern fiction.
This thesis establishes first, the postmodern nature of both novels, before addressing the aspects that renders the categorization ambiguous. The problem of defining postmodern fiction is also reconsidered, in the thesis's conclusion, as is the future of postmodern fiction.
Date Issued
2003
Call Number
PN98.P67 Yeo
Date Submitted
2003