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When did postmodernism begin?

15 January 2022

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15 January 2022

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Everything, All the Time, Everywhere: How We Became Postmodern Stuart Jeffries

Verso, pp.384, 20

There’s a scene in Martin Amis’s 1990s revenge comedy The Information in which a book reviewer, who’s crushed by his failures and rendered literally impotent by his best friend’s success, is sitting in a low-lit suburban room beside a girl (not his wife) named Belladonna: ‘She was definitely younger than him.

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