#modern prose

• Dullness — The state, quality, or structural character of being dull, bland, or completely devoid of charm; profound monotony manifested in art, writing, or daily life. In modern stylistics, the term denotes a bothersome platitude, a chronic lack of dynamics and expressiveness that induces an inevitable feeling of boredom and indifference.
• Anti-memoirs — An autobiographical work or avant-garde memorialistic trend that rejects traditional chronological structure, idealized retrospective character, and strict factual fidelity in favor of a subjective, fragmented, or essayistic reconstitution of the past; a literary concept historically launched by André Malraux. In a structural sense, the text deconstructs the myth of a coherent self and explores the plays of affective memory.