
Contemporary & Experimental Literature
Contemporary & Experimental Literature
Introduction: Innovates forms and themes to reflect modern societal shifts and individual existential dilemmas.
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Avant-Garde Experiments
Nonlinear narratives, genre-blurring texts.
(Examples: If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler by Italo Calvino, The Embroidered Shoes by Can Xue) -
Genre Fiction
Sci-fi (The Three-Body Problem by Liu Cixin), crime (Journey Under the Midnight Sun by Keigo Higashino), magical realism (1Q84 by Murakami). -
Nonfiction Narratives
Memoirs, essays, and documentary-style writing.
(Examples: Secondhand Time by Svetlana Alexievich, Country Driving by Peter Hessler)