Postmodern novels, poems and plays reject the idea of a “meaning” to life – indeed, sometimes the author’s point is that it is impossible to find meaning or order in the world. They believe that the world is chaotic, and the only reaction is to play within the chaos. Postmodern literary works can be fragmented, have complex narrative structures, and sometimes openly address the reader. They can include apparently impossible events, they can have an undercurrent of humour, and they can mix fact and fiction.

Postmodernism techniques - Fragmentation / Temporal Distortion (anti-linear, often go back-and-forth in time) in narrative - Hyperreality (blend of fiction and fact) - Intertextuality - Irony (National Anthem) - Magical Realism (fantasy in a real world, like ghost in Human Act) - Maximalism (given too much information, on corpses imagery) / Minimalism(little information) - Metafiction (makes their reader aware that they are reading a work of fiction)