“Zindagi aik naraz matan”: A postmodern study

Abstract

Shahida Dilawar's novel “Zindagi aik naraz Matan” was published in 2023 by Akas Publications Lahore. In the story of this novel, three main characters include Anum (Anu), Ali (narrator) and Sarwar Javed The story is structured through these three characters. The contemporary social situation and the life spent in offices is the prominent theme of this novel. The use of postmodern techniques of fiction is very common in the novel Zindagi aik naraz matan, Which makes this novel postmodern . In this novel, the post-modern technique of fiction is the use of irony, palyfullness, black humour, faction, Metafiction, Historiographic Metafiction, Pastiche, Intertextuality, Paranoia ،Temporal Distortion, Maximalism techniques. In this paper, by studying these postmodern techniques, this novel has been declared as postmodern