Post modern fiction

1) I have chosen to look at the Post Modernist text Fight Club for this blog and more specifically how it deals with the 'crisis' that males in NOrth Merica are suffering in the modern day. http://www.jademyst.com/essays/11.html displays an article which focus's on this topic in great detail. A basic over view of the site gives the impression that ever since the strong feminist movements of the 1950's and 1960's there have been new generations of men since that feel under valued and useless in the modern day America. Hogan says 'Fight Club speaks to listless and directionless young men in a calculated attempt to shock and disturb them from their slow mundane deaths that pass for existance, and it speaks to and shocks women in an attempt to wake them up to the way the change in society is damaging and killing their sons, husbands and brothers.' So from this quote we can see that in some postmodernist fiction the main topic or focus is that of the masculine self and the role in which men play in modern society.

2) Thomas Pynchon.
Thomas Pynchon was born in New York in 1937. He is a widely respected and highly regarded postmodernist fictional writer. He gained an English degree from Cornell. He began writing short texts however he started to write his fictional novels from the late 1950's and early 1960's. His most famous works are V (1963) The Crying Lot 49 (1966) Gravitys rainbow (1973) Vineland (1990) Mason & Dixon (1997) and against the day (2006). He has won the national book award and has been cited many times as a contemder for the Nobel prize for literature. He has written novels focusing on many fields including science, mathematics and history.