the modernists-that middle-class morality, linearity, cause and effect, and transparent lan- guage cannot capture the chaos of 20th-century life. Disjunction, simul- taneity, and irrationality must be incorporated into literature. But the postmodernist must also remember that the bewildering works the modernists wrote as protests against traditionalism have made their point. We don't need any more Finnegan's Wakes, writes Barth. Post- modernists should give us books more readable than the forbiddingly...