Writing about literature by Eric Sandberg https://padlet.com/cityuniversityhkenglish/4q1lwizw179axbbg Write a short paragraph, like the example I have posted here, about how chapter 2 or 3 of the Crying of Lot 49 is typically post-modern. en-us 2025-10-21 07:23:05 UTC 2025-10-21 07:29:51 UTC hello@padlet.com Eric's example from chapter 1 eric_sandberg https://padlet.com/cityuniversityhkenglish/4q1lwizw179axbbg/wish/3642639083 There are a number of typically postmodern motifs and scenes in the first chapter of The Crying of Lot 49. Perhaps the most obvious of these occurs when Oedipa Mass visits her lawyer,

Roseman. Roseman is a real lawyer, but he ‘cherished a fierce ambivalence’ towards Perry Mason, who is a character on

television (8). In fact, it is not clear if Roseman can distinguish between reality and its media representation. At one point, for example, he worries that Oedipa might be ‘one of Perry Mason’s spies’, even though the idea that television character would have a real life spy is ludicrous (9). This sort of scene is an example of what Baudrillard calls hyperreality, a typical feature of postmodernism.


Works Cited

Pynchon, Thomas. The Crying of Lot 49. London: Vintage, 2000.

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