End of Modern Literature

Kojin Karatani is an internationally renowned Marxian theorist and philosopher. Previously, he was a Professor at Hosei University in Tokyo, Kinki University in Osaka, and Columbia University in New York. He is the author of Transcritique, The Structure of World History, and Marx: Towards the Centre of Possibility, among others.

The premise of The End of Modern Literature is that everyone knows literature is dead, but no one knows how it died. Consequently, the volume reads like a supreme theoretical detective story, the anatomy of a murder: who did it, why, what are the consequences... Dozens of ideas popped up in my mind. No wonder the volume reads like a detective story since I think that today the only genre of literature that survived its death are detective stories written by women (like Tana French). Plus it seems to me clear that what comes after literature are high-quality TV series. You want to get even more idea? So read the volume - no excuse, no choice, just do it!