This chapter explores how two novels—Sudden Death by Álvaro Enrigue and Lost Children Archive by Valeria Luiselli—engage with historical representation through postmodern literary approaches. While both authors employ postmodern strategies to integrate historical events, their works cannot be classified as historical novels. Sudden Death revisits the transition from colonial times to postmodernity in European and American history, using a symbolic tennis match between the Italian painter Caravaggio and the Spanish poet Francisco de Quevedo. In contrast, Lost Children Archive adopts an archival form to examine the migration crisis at the U.S.-Mexico border. In both cases, postmodernism creates a rich literary environment, but this comes at the expense of historical depth and human toll.