Which postmodern author wrote 'The Crying of Lot 49,' a novella that epitomizes the theme of paranoia and the search for meaning in a chaotic world?
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Correct answer: Thomas Pynchon
Pynchon's work often features vast, undecipherable conspiracies that leave the protagonist and the reader unsure if there is a real pattern or just random noise. This sense of epistemological uncertainty is a hallmark of postmodernism.
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