>Ulysses, Gravity's Rainbow, Infinite Jest, The Recognitions, Moby-DickThere are lots of maximalist, encyclopedic, doorstopper novels, but where are the minimalist novels?
Not a novel but Mallarmé’s poetry is partly what you’re looking for.
>>25202331Hemingway, kinda. Also Gertrude Stein's The Making of Americans is an exercise in combining common words into as many combinations as possible.>A man in his living has many things inside him, he has in him his important feeling of himself to himself inside him, he has in him the kind of important feeling of himself to himself that makes his kind of man; this comes sometimes from a mixture in him of all the kinds of natures in him, this comes sometimes from the bottom nature in him, this comes sometimes from the natures in him that are in him that are sometime in him mixed up with the bottom nature in him, sometimes in some men this other nature or natures in him are not mixed with the bottom nature in him at any time in his living many of such men have the important feeling of themselves inside them coming from the other nature or natures in them not from the bottom nature of them.I also know that Beckett supposedly went full minimalist in his later career, but I haven't read him yet.
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>>25202331The Tatar Steppe StonerBlood MeridianLibra Les Particules élémentaires
>>25202352you have no idea what minimalist means, do you
>>25202352>The Tatar Steppe >Stoner>Blood MeridianNone of these are minimalist. Haven't read the rest.
>>25202352These are normalist or moderatist
>>25202352Bait? I can’t even tell.
>>25202331Herman Hesse's novels are pretty simple overall.
>>25202352Blood meridian is in a weird place, it observes the usual minimalist heritage of primarily using monosyllabic or bisyllabic words but the words themselves are either highly exotic or McCarthy’s syntax places them in complex patterns which feels more maximalist than anything else. I think Beckett in his trilogy is also quite similar in this regard, especially in the Unnamable. The Road is a better example from McCarthy.
>>25202331Like later Don Delillo, think Point Omega.
