This chapter picks up the thread from Chapter 4 where a modernist resolution of the contradiction of individualism was explored. Chapter 5 was tangential to the argument. It considered the one exception in Farah's oeuvre, namely, Close Sesame, which attempts to represent a heteronomous subject through the narrative mode of the novel which privileges autonomy. Earlier the central compromise of realism was explored. Realism compromises the contradiction that individual autonomy finally submits to socialisation through irony in closure. Chapter 4 suggests that the techniques of modernism allow irony to reflect on itself. Self-reflexive irony is inherently concerned with aesthetic questions and tends to take the form of textuality. The contradiction encountered by realism disappears in the idea that both the self and society are literary constructs. Postmodernism, this chapter argues, assumes what modernism shows through various formal techniques. Modernism shows that the subject is a collage of literary fragments. Postmodernism proceeds from the idea of the divided subject. This chapter proposes, through a reading primarily of Maps, the Farah novel which provoked the greatest scholarly interest, that postmodern “schizophrenic” identity is not a radical critique of the autonomous subject for whom the ethical sources are constructed through individual reason or intuition.