Abstract
This article gives a brief preview of the topic of postmodern literatures, and the aspects of playful, fragmented, metafictional, and intertextual writing. They are expounded in the lecture that analyses Thomas Pynchon’s works and the work of Uzbek writer Ulugbek Hamdam. It is using playfulness, fragmentation, metafiction, and intertextuality and generally, it affirms the verbal and visual simulation of culture and its codes. While doing so, however, they are guided by different cultural and, in a way, narrative premises; at the same time, Thomas Pynchon and Ulug’bek Hamdam exhibit similar features in their books.