Postmodernism is a cultural movement that develops from the sixties and it is still going on today. The name is made up of the prefix POST meaning something that comes after modernism and the negative suffix –ISM that explains that new movements are not welcomed by people because they are scared by the new.

The most important concept of Postmodernism is that it questions the idea of authority, absolute truth and the centre differently from Modernism which still seems to believe in the possibility of finding a truth, something to believe in.

Besides Postmodernism does not believe in the existence of an absolute meaning because meaning is never stable, always slippery, still to come and differed.

Postmodernism abolished the difference between low and high art.

Even if Postmodernism believes that people are not free because their opinion and their decisions are influenced by their own background, its works are created in order to make the reader reflect and provide his own interpretation of its meaning. On the other hand modernism guides and control the reader’s response to their work and it provides directly the meaning.