Word: postmodernity
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...period since that non-meeting, though, something happened--something out of a postmodern fairy tale that finally caused Kevin to pay attention and set Stacey's life on a fresh course. Thanks to the plastic surgeons, personal trainers, hair stylists and wardrobe consultants of the hit ABC TV series Extreme Makeover, homely Stacey became a raving beauty. After $18,000 worth of liposuction procedures, brow and eye lifts, Botox injections and dental work, Stacey went home to Nebraska from Hollywood an astonishing 35 lbs. lighter and looking like a newly minted pop star. In no time, her troublesome boyfriend...
It’s easy to think you know Dave Eggers after reading his work—just ask his legion of rabid intellectual fans. But last week, about 150 Harvard students and faculty spent an hour getting closer to the post-postmodern hero than any of the countless readers of Eggers’ self-referential, hyperactive fiction, pyrotechnically clever literary journal and wittily personal 2000 meta-memoir, A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius...
...this is about as colorful an anecdote as you'll ever hear about John Maxwell Coetzee (kut-see-uh). He is intensely private (some say cripplingly shy) and deeply (some say coldly) intellectual, but above all, he is a grand master of the complex game of postmodern literary theory, inclined to speak--when he speaks at all--in riddles and codes. As a South African, he lived in a society in which writers were always issuing polemics and producing grimly realistic novels about our perpetual crisis. Not Coetzee. He still declines to take sides, join causes or issue comments...
There's no point looking to Coetzee for clarification. He failed to show up for his Booker award ceremonies, and who knows whether he'll show up in Stockholm on Dec. 10 for his Nobel. The protagonist of his latest novel, Elizabeth Costello, herself a postmodern novelist, might offer some clues as to his thoughts. On being picked for a literary prize, she says, "I should have asked them to forget the ceremony and send the check in the mail...
...never heard before," he said. And this is about as colorful an anecdote as you'll ever hear about John Maxwell Coetzee. He is intensely private (some say cripplingly shy) and deeply (some say coldly) intellectual, but above all, he is a grand master of the complex game of postmodern literary theory, inclined to speak - when he speaks at all - in riddles and codes. As a South African, he lived in a society in which other writers were always issuing polemics and producing grimly realistic novels about our perpetual crisis. Not Coetzee. His writing is veiled, oblique; his personal style...