The Death of PostModernism

[ricardo tinoco]

If one bears in mind that obsolete discipline once known as History of Literature, one should conclude that literary movements, much as living beings, are born, have a life span, and eventually die. To anounce the "Death" of one movement, it seems to me, is just a wicked desire of being able to say, in the nearer or farther future, " Didn´t I tell ya?" This is just as valid for other famous "Death" announcements.
 
Now, concerning PostModernism: considering that it is the first movement which really isn´t a movement for it's frontier's are less than defined, that it's the first (on the footsteps of St. Joyce et al.) that fuses, not to mention aspects that could be regarded by Them as exterior to it, such oposing fields of literature as romanticism, classicism and realism,
that continually escapes (and even regains) old molds, one might conclude than rather than being a movement, PostModernism is more like a microcosmus, or a mirror, of Literature (or Life) itself, thus being the first "movement" that can actually rejoice with it's own "Death". And laugh at the arses posing as prophets, of course. 



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