The Labyrinth

Sterne invents the postmodern novel 200 years early. Carroll turns logic inside out. Joyce pushes language to its limit and then past it. Borges builds labyrinths in miniature. Calvino and Perec turn structure into content. Nabokov makes criticism into fiction. Cortazar lets you choose your own path. Pynchon and Wallace and Bolano try to contain the entire world in a single book and nearly succeed.