POST MODERN FICTION

1920s was the decade of expermentation, 1930s the Red Communist view, strongly
political (strongly committed literature of those times). Message was more important
than style and form(how).
1940s: after the 2nd WW, there was disolussion, disappointment, frustration. The novel
had become weaker.
1970s the great production started.
There are many essays to be taken into consideration
David lodge gives us many ideas: he thinks about this situation:
a) 1) aesthetically (style, genre, form how) 2) institutionally (commercial conditions):
conditions of writing and how writing is produced and circulated.
Post modernism: everything is in and nothing is out
b) the novelist can be seen: 1) critically (literary criticism/ literary theories, nothing is
only one thing any more)
2) creatively (what the writer produces)
In these two ways, criticism is as productive as creative writing. Eg: there are more
books about Shakespeare than by Shakespeare.
c) The writer can be considered: 1) descriptively (the novel appears and is read)
2) prescriptively (it tells the author how to write).
Virginia Woolf in her essay says: writers should....
According to Lodge writers shouldnt fictionalise instead of actually inventing real
fiction. He suggests FABULATION (mimesis, fantasy, what the writer imagines)
So, metaphorically defining it, Lodge says the writer is at a crossroads:

But if he uses a mixture of those techniques he achieves what he defines as crossover

fiction./ aesthetic pluralism
*metafiction: when the writer includes all his hesitations in the novel. Eg An unwritten
novel by Woolf.
Salman Rushdie (The Satanic Verses)
John Barth (Giles goat bot)
etc
These two are extreme examples of fabulation, themes that are exaggerated on purpose,
to be read with humour.
Lodge also mentions Booker Prizes that are a combination of everything. From among
all, realism is still the preferred style.

Because of the abundance there is, there is a risk of the writer being interested in fame,
carisma rather than literary writing, which loses te real literary value and hence is
difficult to know what to choose to read.
BOOKER PRIZES
1969 P. H. Newby United Kingdom Something to Answer For
1970 Bernice Rubens United Kingdom The Elected Member
1971 V. S. Naipaul Trinidad and Tobago/United Kingdom In a Free State
1972 John Berger United Kingdom G.
1973 J. G. Farrell United Kingdom The Siege of Krishnapur
1974 Nadine Gordimer Stanley Middleton South AfricaUnited Kingdom The
ConservationistHoliday
1975 Ruth Prawer Jhabvala United Kingdom/Germany Heat and Dust
1976 David Storey United Kingdom Saville
1977 Paul Scott United Kingdom Staying On 1
978 Iris Murdoch Ireland/United Kingdom The Sea, the Sea
1979 Penelope Fitzgerald United Kingdom Offshore 1980 William Golding United
Kingdom Rites of Passage
1981 Salman Rushdie India Midnight's Children
1982 Thomas Keneally Australia Schindler's Ark
1983 J. M. Coetzee South Africa Life & Times of Michael K
1984 Anita Brookner United Kingdom Hotel du Lac
1985 Keri Hulme New Zealand The Bone People 1
1986 Kingsley Amis United Kingdom The Old Devils
1987 Penelope Lively United Kingdom Moon Tiger
1988 Peter Carey Australia Oscar and Lucinda 1989 Kazuo Ishiguro
UnitedKingdom/Japan The Remains of the Day
1990 A. S. Byatt United Kingdom Possession: A Romance
1991 Ben Okri Nigeria The Famished Road
1992 Michael OndaatjeBarry Unsworth Sri Lanka/Canada
United Kingdom The English Patient
1993 Roddy Doyle Ireland Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha
1994 James Kelman United Kingdom How Late It Was, How Late
1995 Pat Barker United Kingdom The Ghost Road
1996 Graham Swift United Kingdom Last Orders
1997 Arundhati Roy India The God of Small Things
1998 Ian McEwan United Kingdom Amsterdam
1999 J. M. Coetzee South Africa Disgrace
2000 Margaret Atwood Canada The Blind Assassin
2001 Peter Carey Australia True History of the Kelly Gang
2002 Yann Martel Canada Life of Pi
2003 DBC Pierre Australia/Mexico Vernon God Little
2004 Alan Hollinghurst United Kingdom The Line of Beauty
2005 John Banville Ireland The Sea
2006 Kiran Desai India The Inheritance of Loss
2007 Anne Enright Ireland The Gathering
2008 Aravind Adiga India The White Tiger
2009 Hilary Mantel United Kingdom Wolf Hall