AMITAV GHOST’S SELECTED NOVELS AND 20th CENTURY EXPLORATIONS

Abstract

The history of twentieth century literature is often nowadays written in two broad categories: one was Modernism and the other Postmodernism. They were the two large periods of the 20th century. Like modernist literature, 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. Postmodern authors tend to reject outright meanings in their novels, stories and poems, and, instead, highlight and celebrate the possibility of multiple meanings, or a complete lack of meaning, within a single literary work.