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Contemporary Literature

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Contemporary Literature

Contemporary literature is a movement that emerged during the twentieth century. It is a modern form of writing which can also be called postmodernism. Postmodern writers created a new way of writing that is slightly different from the one of the first half of the twentieth century. Postmodern writers create fiction worlds and characters and they can mix them with real ones, characters can also tell different versions of a story, they use and accommodate the time as they want, it doesn't has to be in chronological order.

The film "Run Lola Run" is about a girl named Lola who has to get a lot of money for her boyfriend after he loses it on the subway on his way to pay it to the mafia. Her boyfriend Manni calls her from a phone cabin and when they hung up, Lola begins to run from place to place in order to get the money. Three different endings are given to the story, but these endings are the result of the events that Lola changed every time she started over.

Postmodern writers structure their work in nontraditional forms; they also "play" with time and accommodate it as they need. The

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