Abstract
A. S. Byatt’s oeuvre instantiates many postmodern tropes, by dint of which her underlying thematic messages find a better way of being imparted to the audience. Albeit deemed one of the critically little-attended works of Byatt, “The Chinese Lobster” from The Matisse Stories (1993) stands as an epitome of postmodern literature. This hard-to-interpret story offers its thematics, this study suggests, in the guise of numerous postmodern elements whose investigation enables one’s mastery of how and why Byatt aims at allying her thematic messages with an equal share of postmodernist discourse. In illustrating such postmodern elements, this paper’s arguments lean towards interpreting some salient postmodern features such as paradox, parody, irony, undecidability, and little and grand narratives in the story.
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