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What features are typically associated with postmodern fiction?

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Postmodern writers tend to view experiments with form as part of the message of expressing human experiences; they want to represent the act of writing itself, when done most authentically, as an experiment. Another feature of postmodernism is that the chaotic nature of modern life is often a condition to be celebrated rather than "solved" or organized by the calm voices of reason. Contemporary writers seek to represent the crazy unpredictability of life in the 20th century without attempting to impose a traditional logic on that experience. As a result, this genre of literature is often difficult to interpret and understand. More characteristics of the movement are the tendencies to approach each work of art differently as well as mess with readers' expectations of a narrative by changing the structure as an example. Irony is also often used.

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Postmodern literature is a form of literature which is marked, both stylistically and ideologically, by a reliance on such literary conventions as fragmentation, paradox, unreliable narrators, often unrealistic and downright impossible plots, games, parody, paranoia, dark humor and authorial self-reference.

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