All three authors, Calvino , Drucker and Acker , all followed the post modernist rejection of the grand narrative. They went off in their own directions, straying from the style of the classic novel, coming up with new ideas on how to construct events. Calvino's novel, If On A Winter's Night A Traveler , "turns out to be not one novel but ten, each with a different plot, style, ambience, and authoer, and each interrupted at a moment of suspense." Calvino composed a whole new narrative style telling ten fragmented stories within a single novel.  He created a very unconventional novel using this style of narrative. It made it a very intriguing, sometimes frustrating. The protagonist, referred to as "You," is desperatly trying to find the end to numerous stories he keeps beginning. The novel does more than just tell stories, because of it's lack of the grand narrative it also "points out your own inadequacies as a reader." It is possible to read the novel for what it is on the surface, or you can delve below the surface where a whole new novel resides.

Johanna Drucker vehemently rejects the idea of a grand narrative in her novel, Dark Decade. In this novel Druker attempts to explore the obscurities of the eitghties. The language she uses is opaque, and attempting to follow any kind of plot becomes futile. Her purpose for writing the novel then becomes something for each individual reader to find out for him or herself. When the reader has discovered there is no solid plot to follow it then becomes necessary to acquiesce to Drucker's narrative style. The flow and the sound of her writing becomes the plot. The way she meshes together and experiments with language is what makes Dark Decade a compelling novel. Druker creates her own narrative style which enables her to isolate and emphasize language, "I saw in the face of that phantasm, that imaginary replication of the real, which flickered on the screen, the shape of fears and dreams that began wiht a violent exorcism and emerges into childhood fantasies fo escape and meetings with the alien other." Her lack of plot becomes benificial to her readers, helping them to "see the language."

Drucker's obsession with language and the printed word is another trait which makes her work post modern. Her facination and experimentation with text permeates Dark Decade. Drucker experiments with the printed word, trying to convey the body and soul of language. She attempts to shift the focal point of the reader by forcing one to delve deeper into the words. Rather than just taking the language for it's surface meaning you have to stop and let yourself "feel" the writing. The subject and story line change from sentence to sentence negating any plot that might have been started. Drucker never intended on having a completely discernable plot, she was more interested in aesthetics the language. She concentrated on the meshing of the words, creating a peaceful flow of text.

Acker also follows the post modern rejection of the grand narrative in her novel, Empire of the Senseless. Like both Drucker and Calvino, Acker has come up with her own form of narrative. Though all of these authors reject the idea of a grand narrative, all of their alternative styles differ. The free flowing narrative floats from one event to another, following the flighty thoughts of the two main characters. "I didn't know where Thivai was. Where in hell Thivai was. In the post-apoclyptic mess. Fuck him, he was only a man. Men, especially straight men aren't worth anything. A bit like success." The thoughts, seemingly incoherent at times, are all strung together forming Acker's narrative style.