Post-modernist fiction apparently presents a world of chance and
randomness, devoid of historical intelligibility. Focusing on
American post-modernist writers, Stacey Olster offers a challenge
to this perception, showing how the experience of political and
historical events has shaped the novelist's perspective. Communism
after World War II proved particularly instrumental in this
capacity; the failure of the Communist ideal in Russia forced a
change in the literary perspective of history during the 1950s.
Olster analyzes in detail historical narrative configurations in
the works of a pivotal group of writers. Norman Mailer, Thomas
Pynchon, John Barth, Robert Coover and E. L. Doctorow share a
common vision of historical movement in the shape of an open-ended
spiral. The modes of temporal movement constructed by these authors
manage to recall an early Puritan prototype while remaining
nonapocalyptic in direction.
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