A new genre of fiction can be constructed by analysing narratives in a pragmatic level. A literary work cab be labelled as “Finitude Narrative” if it is found having two basic requisites. The first of these conditions would be that the syntagm of the narrative should be a collection of signs(words) that stem to convey the thought of death. The syntagm is of primary importance to deliver a particular impression upon the reader. The “Finitude Syntagm” is fundamental, yet, the syntagm can be given a proper context only when it is accompanied by an “Unbiased Machinery of Death” which would be the required second condition. The various of machines of death include war, plague and all terminal causes of death. Thus, the research paper would attempt to establish a working genre with these set of conditions. The novels of Geraldine Brooks take precedence in this hypothesis. Her novel Year of Wonders seem to be found with all the above-mentioned conditions to be crowned as a “Finitude Narrative”. The primary objective of the hypothesis, on being proved, will be to catalogue the psychological response of the reader on coming across such narratives.

Syntagm, Pragmatics, Psychoanalysis, Genre Study, Reader Response, Mortality Salience.