Word: post-modernism
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...neither a treatise nor a text-book. Actually, no one is really sure what the book is. What can be said is that Ka contains a fascinating collection of stories at once comical, mysterious, unnerving and erotic, told by a brilliant modern narrator. The book actually reads like a post-modern Hindu campfire story. The fifteen sections of the book recount all the stories contained in the major theological and mythological texts of India, but Calasso does not assume any prior knowledge of the Rig-Veda, the Mahabharata or the like, nor does he linger on the stories' historical background...
...actually did some kind of intelligent comparison of different societies without worrying about relating them to post-modern concerns, then it would be a great service to history concentrators," said Laszlo Nagy...
...best proof of the inherent eccentricity of existence--this week's best proof, anyway--is that Italo Calvino, revered author of If on a winter's night a traveler and other classics of post-modern literature, began by writing neo-realistic stories of the Italian Resistance. In the recently retranslated and re-released The Path to the Spiders' Nests, Calvino tells the story of Pin, a street urchin. Pin, mischievous and impish and all those other cute things we expect of urchins, lives a difficult life. (This too we expect, although Pin's life has cruder aspects than most...
Perhaps, in this age of post-modern politics, a television advertisement says...
...write is to contest. And despite the supposed anonymity of the post-modern idea-inheritor, the opinions of a contestant nonetheless become attached to a name. The name of the writer-contestant gains a personality of its own, and becomes famous or infamous for the opinions to which it is signed...