Anils Ghost: How to Read a Postmodern Mystery Novel

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Anils GhostHow to Read a Postmodern Mystery
Novel

• 1. Postmodern Plotting2. Postmodern
  Perspective3. Postmodern Mystery

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• In a fearful nation, public sorrow was stamped
  down by the climate of uncertainty. If a father
  protested a sons death, it was feared another
  family member would be killed. If people you
  knew disappeared, there was a chance they might
  stay alive if you did not cause trouble. This
  was the scarring psychosis in the country.
  Death, loss, was unfinished, so you could not
  walk through it. . . .
• And who was this skeleton? In this room, among
  these four,she was hiding among the unhistorical
  dead. To fetch a dead body what a curious
  task! To cut down the corpse of an unknown
  hanged man and then bear the body of the animal
  on ones back . . . Something dead, something
  buried, something already rotting away? Who was
  he? This representative of all those lost
  voices. To give him a name would name the rest
  (56).