Postmodern writing is depicted as a methodology that created in the time of post-The Second Great War. 'Discontinuity' is the acknowledgment of alienation of any person and is a noticeable component of postmodern writing. Kurt Vonnegut, Vladimir Nabokov, Thomas Pynchon, Ishmael Reed, John Barth and William Gaddis are some remarkable writers who have some association with postmodern writing. postmodern writing was officially started in 1972. Shafak's backing of a cosmopolitan, worldwide society, where public affiliations become old, conflicts with her open adherence to the requirements and style of the American scholarly market. 'Techno culture' is the mix of innovation with culture while 'fleeting mutilation' implies that occasions and activities in any account don't bring about sequential request, both of these attributes are utilized in postmodern writing. A connection between two abstract works is known as 'intertextuality' that is likewise a procedure utilized in postmodern writing. examine Elif Shafak’s novel The forty rules of love as an impression of her endeavor to rise above social limits through fiction. Postmodern writing addresses a culture which addresses postmodern life.
Olivia Chirobocea-Tudor. History and Fiction in American Postmodernist Novels: Kurt Vonnegut, Joseph Heller and Thomas Pynchon. Constanța: Ovidius University Press, 2019. Pp 262. ISBN: 978-606-060-000-8
