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Special Topics in Calamity Physics by Marisha Pessl

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Ted Gioia
Jan 01, 2000
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The postmodern novel is a slippery thing. It easily collapses into self-parody or even an attack on its own sustaining principles. After all, when everything is deconstructed, why should the deconstructor be exempted? When the pundit insists that “no standpoint is privileged and no discourse is objectively true,” the most appropriate response is: “Same …

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