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the approaches of literature and philosophy, Gardner argues: "The difference between what I am doing and what a philosopher is doing is that my activity leads to a feeling state, whereas the philosopher has only cold clarity (LeClair 14—5)." He concludes saying that "What argument is to philosophy, plot is to fiction (LeClair 16)." Of course artists respect art more as a form of presenting one's own understanding of life, even some philosophers like Rorty hold this preference. What intellectuals of both fields reject is the traditional role of both domains: to present a complete explanation and picture of the world. Zoom 3.: Fiction —Absurd Creation and the American Peculiarities of Postmodern Fiction. There are no words for that silence I crave like a brother sewed to the underside of my skin. Bathetic and superluminal is my true self. Citified, I arsenal my words for the unquestionable, for, really, my heart would have only one answer, no good for lifting chairs or writing cheques. I am a deconstructivist with the throat of a lark. Ridiculous as it looks I market the tragedy. I try to find angels in micro-trajectories, and the heart emblazoned on the Janus-faced mysteries. (Di Cicco: "Deep as the Exhaustion on God") Postmodernism is a global contemporary phenomenon. Vajda devoted a whole section to study the presence of postmodern philosophy in Eastern Europe in his recent book (183-96). As for American literature, numerous critical works analyzed postmodernism as a literary phenomenon and many have searched for connections with philosophy as well. Among them I especially appreciated R. B. Hauck's essay entitled "The American Sisyphus" (3-14) and AbádiNagy's introduction to the novel of the 1960s entitled Válság és komikum: A hatvanas évek amerikai regánye, since both treatise explore the core of the postmodern concept of existence and its presence in literary texts. To mention another useful source, Hutcheon's inclusive book on the Canadian Postmodern identifies universalities besides the distinct Canadian attributes. 49
