Postmodernism has had its day. Are we now in the era ofepimodernism? Reinterpreting the six “memos” that Italo Calvino suggested more than thirty years ago for “the new Millennium”, in this acclaimed book Emmanuel Bouju identifies six new values for literature in the twenty-first century: Superficiality, Secrecy, Energy, Acceleration, Credit, and Follow Through. Based on the principal meanings of the Ancient Greek prefixepi– surface, contact, origin, extension, duration, authority, and finality – these values represent six different ways of relating to the legacy of modernist...
Postmodernism has had its day. Are we now in the era ofepimodernism? Reinterpreting the six “memos” that Italo Calvino suggested more than thirty ...