دراسات فنية
Volume 10, Numéro 1, Pages 26-36
1970-01-01

Fractured Realities: Unveiling Postmodern Dimensions In Guillaume Musso’s French Thriller Central Park (2014)

Authors : Bensahla Tani Sara .

Abstract

Postmodern literature had emerged as a response to its previous waves of philosophical thought, aiming to bring new and unorthodox perspectives to the literary sphere. In this light, it refuted the preconceived and conventional techniques of storytelling and dismantled traditional hierarchies. Postmodern tenets have found fertile ground in the thriller novel as a way to plant the seeds of fragmented, nonlinear, and unreliable narrative mechanisms in a literary genre fueled with themes of uncertainty and pandemonium. Central Park (2014), written by Guillaume Musso, is a contemporary French thriller novel disguised in a postmodernist cloak, tapping into postmodernist tendencies through its intricate narrative structure and exploration of memory.

Keywords

Postmodernism ; Thriller Novel ; Fragmentation ; Nonlinearity ; Unreliable Narration