A comparative analysis on Jennifer Egan’s a visit from the goon squad and the candy house : through the lens of Postmodernism

Abstract

This whole paper studies the idea of postmodernism based on Jennifer Egan’s two novels A Visit from the Goon Squad (2010) and The Candy House (2022), which stand as the remarkable exemplars of postmodern fiction in twenty first century. In spite of being published more than a decade apart, these two novels are elaborately linked through their unified characters, narrative formats, as well as through their thematic concerns. Although The Candy House does not serve merely as a sequel; still it is an expansion of the imaginative as well as the structural universe of the novel A Visit from the Goon Squad. While this paper explores the postmodern feature through the idea of postmodern narrative strategies; which includes fragmentation, non linear temporality, intertextuality, shifting narrative perspectives; in order to question the postmodern anxieties which is surrounded by fluid identity, technology, and surveillance.