The Present book is critical study of the novels of Robert Kroetsch. Kroetsch often bases his novels on myths while exploring such themes as exile, loss, gender roles and selfhood. He is considered one of Canada’s foremost practitioners and theoreticians of postmodern literature. He engages with the idea of technological modernization, indicating that this version of progress conceals the loss of an organic relationship between humanity and the world. Quests in modern literature do not always lead to one answer, be they in Eliot’s Wastleand or in Kroetsch’s Alibi.
