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A pathetic image of "suspense" dramatizes the great trauma of modern literature: paranoid and "dangling man," robbed of optimism, awaits some incalculable and ghastly catastrophe, yet he is equally fearful of failure even here, paralyzed by the dread that nothing will happen-alike benumbed by the anticipation that the world-or his own life-will end in a bang, or a whimper.
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satiric grotesque, modern grotesque, literary disruptions, performing self
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Evelyn Waugh, Kurt Vonnegut, Don Quixote, Donald Barthelme, John Barth, Big Mama, Jonathan Swift, Norman Mailer, Samuel Beckett, Alexander Pope, Giles Goat-Boy, Henry James, Cat's Cradle, Humbert Humbert, James Thurber, Mark Twain, Martinus Scriblerus, Middle Ages, One Hundred Years of Solitude, Snow White, Stanislaw Lem, Thomas Mann, Woody Allen, Animal Farm, Cide Hamete Benengeli
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