tradition where butterflies want to sing, elephants want to dance, alchemists, sorcerers and witches want to overwork, and the storyteller creates landscapes which have no association to any town, city or country, and is yet not alien. Further reading Baroque Mr Difficult Antinovel Stream of consciousness (narrative mode) Nonlinear narrative Magic realism Automatic writing Postmodern literature Reader-response criticism Fiction-writing modes References Living people Tamil-language writers Postmodern writers Tamil writers People from Tamil Nadu Tamil-language literature 1956 births