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September 12, 2025

Sublime Postmodernism

Puntos clave

Postmodern literary works embody a sublime aesthetic that transcends traditional interpretation, inviting new ways of understanding.
The concept of the sublime illustrates the disconnection between artistic expression and our interpretative capabilities, as seen in Rexhep Qosja's work.
This analysis employs a close reading of Qosja's The Secrets Revealed to explore the dissolution of meta-narratives through paradox and intertextuality.
Highlighting Barthes' ideas, the discussion emphasizes how fragmented structures within texts draw reader attention towards deeper meanings.

Resumen

Postmodern literary works, in the spirit of the aesthetics of the sublime, imply a disproportion between the artistic work and our (in)ability to display and interpret it; we have nothing to interpret, the postmodern text is a sublime act, it is an event, it simply happens. Such a textual event is also the postmodern parable of Rexhep Qosja, specifically the omnibus novel The Secrets Revealed, a novel distinguished by the poetics of paradox. The poetics of paradox marks the dissolution of meta-narratives. It operates through the play with discourses, the parodic, double-discourse of postmodern intertextuality, the play with fragments, with pieces of the whole, deep and ironic fractures that, according to Roland Barthes, “create the effect of a spark that draws attention .”

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