Editing Digression (section)

=== 20th century ===
In late twentieth-century literature (in [[Postmodern literature|postmodern fiction]]), authors began to use digressions as a way of distancing the reader from the fiction and for creating a greater sense of play.  [[John Fowles]]'s ''[[The French Lieutenant's Woman]]'' and [[Lawrence Norfolk]]'s ''Lemprière's Dictionary'' both employ digressions to offer scholarly background to the fiction, while others, like [[Gilbert Sorrentino]] in ''Mulligan Stew'', use digression to prevent the functioning of the fiction's illusions.