POSTMODERNISM

The book "Oranges are not the only fruit" is a typical postmodern novel.

Postmodernism developed during the 60^th and its main tenet are: it does no longer believe in concept of truth, it puts therefore the question of authority into doubt. It does no longer believe in the concept of centre as it generally happened in the previous generation.

If modernism (covers the first three decades of 19^th centuries) was still looking for a centre, for a point of reference and puts the question and the research on art at the centre, postmodernism questions all that and comes to the conclusion that there is no longer single centre because saying that there is no absolute truth, also implies that there is no meaning. There is no longer one centre but more centers and therefore meaning is always differed there is a continuous slipping of meaning because it is never stable. The concept is connected to the relationship between:

•1.    Signifier

•2.    Signified

The position of the reader is the best one because it is the reader (she/he) that makes sense, he/she gives the meaning, one of the possible meanings of what he is reading.

A perfect example of postmodernism book is "Oranges are not the only fruit" which relies on a restructuring of the Bible structure in a new context, there is a lot of intertextuality.