don quixote

No. You can both trace it further back and say that it's just a parody and pomo proper comes later.

>>9480463
Steve Coogan was playing a pseud, you're not supposed to take him seriously

>>9480483
>it's just a parody
Go read it again buddy.

No, it's 'Satyricon' by Gaius Petronius *wink*

>>9480463
It's literally the first novel at all, moron.
(Well, the best earliest example of prose fiction.)

>>9480463
I'd say nah. It's got some pomo elements, but Tristram Shandy is a better example of pre-modern postmodernism.

>>9480463
That's like asking if Plato was a Marxist.

>>9480682

How many romances have you even read?

>>9480794
Like, prior to his other works?

>cervantes literally thows in random stories/novellas he had laying around to pad part 1
>hundreds of years later the novel has become so hackneyed throwing in random non-sequitor stories has become the norm

so yes, it is the first post-modern novel

>>9483207
He was primarily a playwright.

>>9482937
Well, was he?

>>9483591
No, he was Greek.

>>9483591
His ideal government featured a caste system.

>>9480463

The first is Genji's Tale.

>>9483755
>Marxism is a theory of government and not a critique of political economy

wew