I have been reading a postmodernist author,
Margaret Atwood. The stories of Margaret Atwood are funny and in some ways she criticizes
society and politics. I liked her style of writing because it is not very difficult
to understand and her critiques are original, funny and sarcastic. For example
in her work Tour de France, she tells
the adventures she lived in her trip to Europe and with well known stories she
shows the images that Americans have of the European and vice versa.
While reading Margaret Atwood, we can see some characteristic
of postmodernism. One of these characteristics is that they combine different
styles of known artist and combine it with their own ideas. Intertextuality is
another element used in postmodernist work, where the author takes elements
from another story. It very common in the postmodernist work that the
characters of the story known that they are characters and that they belong to
a story for example in the anime Excel
Saga.
