If modernists such as Virginia Woolf relished depth and metaphysics, then postmodernists such as Martin Amis favoured surface and irony.

如果说现代主义者如弗吉尼亚·伍尔夫爱好深度和玄学，那么后现代主义者如马丁?艾米斯则偏好表象和讽刺。