Maybe Jonathan Coe is not anymore associated to the Desperado image (in
order not to use the term of post modernism) through his Romanesque technique,
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The Accidental Theme: Jonathan Coe, The Accidental Woman Maybe Jonathan Coe is not anymore associated to the Desperado image (in order not to use the term of post modernism) through his Romanesque technique, but he was born and he grew up with the distopic fear of the Deserado writers- the fear of the Apocalypse. Even if his narrative priorities have nothing in common with the conventional narrative nor with the classic narrative model (past-present-future) his main objective is to gratify the reader. Whenever he has something to say- in fact he always shares his fear of the species disappearance- he undoubtedly finds the appropriate techniques. In his first novel, The Accidental Woman, he considered that the “talkative” novel was the best way to embrace. Maybe this direction is not the only one and not even a new one, but it is certain that Coe followed this orientation in order to leave the Desperado literature and to discover a hardly conceivable literature that was not yet defined, nor analyzed.
