The critic Dale Peck has described the postmodern implosion of the novel perfectly: "This is a tradition that has systematically divested itself of any ability to comment on anything other than its own inability to comment on anything.
http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/johann-hari/why-i-wont-be-mourning-derrida-6160181.html
(Johann Hari, Why I won't be mourning Derrida)
