Can This Really Be True?

John Lanchester says:

Postmderinism, or, The Culural Logic of Late Capitalism [is] a difficult book, but, it seems increasingly clear, the most important critical work of the last twenty years ... .

John Lanchester, "Good Day, Comrade Shtrum," London Review of Books 10
(18 October 2007)

I ask for two reasons:

• I hate to think any book so inflated with pretentious jargon can possibly demand respect; and

• I am tinctured with the suspicion that Lanchester is scrambling for a place in the treehouse.
  

I admit, I can't think of any other book that deserves to be called "the most important critical work of the last twenty years ... .