From Michel Houellebecq to Zadie Smith, from Javier Marías to Arnon
Grunberg: this timely study takes its reader on a tour of European
literature and the critical discussion around it. Despite recent
declarations of postmodernism's demise, contemporary literature turns
out to be entangled in a discussion with postmodernism. It is time to
critically evaluate this legacy. Twelve specialists in the national
literatures sketch the outlines of the debate. Turning to literature
itself, they find it to be searching for new values after the
relativizing force of postmodernism.