I'm looking for some more big, beefy...

I'm looking for some more big, beefy, 20th/21st century maximalist shit and I've read all the cliche ones already (Pynchon, Delilo, McElroy, Bolano)

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It's not well known, but Tony White's "Shackleton's Man Goes South". There's a free copy here:
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well have you read Joyce?

Yes.

The Man without Qualities by Musil, Die Strudlhofstiege and Die Dämonen by Heimito von Doderer (who was referenced by Bolano in TSD)
Have you read The Magic Mountain? Life and Fate by Grossman?

On the edge by Rafael Chirbes

In Search of Lost Time if you're not a pussy

Gaddis? Gass?

Cryptonomicon

Illuminatus trilogy

Well Proust is about as beefy as it gets. For more contemporary stuff,

Witz by Cohen
A Naked Singularity by de la Pava
Europe Central by Vollman
Dying Grass by Vollman
Terra Nostra by Fuentes
The Combinations by Armand
Animal Money by Cisco
Laura Warholic by Thereoux
My Struggle by Knausgaard

Almost anything out of Dalkey Archive or NYRB is a good bet.

I'm taking a 2 week vacation and unplugging my internet + phone, this is what I'm planning to read. What am I in for?

Jerusalem

Antagonia by Luis Goytisolo, it's been translated to english by Dalkey. It's fucking huge.

Darconville’s Cat, although at around “only” 600-700 pages (I think, I read it a while ago) it may be slightly on the lower end of experimental and maximalistic doorstoppers.

Earthly Powers by Anthony Burgess

Life and Fate

The kindly ones

Umbrella/Shark/Phone by will self

Have you read strudlhofstiege ? Been thinking about picking it up, whats it like ?

Have you heard of a book called Infinite Jest?

Cryptonomicon

Endless Amusement

Ranko Marinković - Cyclops

Gaddis

Gaddis, not Gass.

Thanks lads. It's a start

MGSV

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Tunnel, must read.

Andre Bley’s Petersburg
Wyndam Lewis’ The Apes of God
House of Leaves?

Why?

de la Pava, A Naked Singularity

Man Without Qualities and Magic Mountain are big, but not maximalist.
Once again, not a maximalist book.

Define "maximalist novel"

Faulkner

Maximalism (and I'll be honest with you, i'm conflating literary and visual arts maximalism, so I might be wrong) requires a certain clash of mediums / languages, a degree of self-awareness (as to how no work can be completely summed up as a single idea) and often (but not always) a quasi-picaresque verve

I thought it just required thinner margins lmao

So that's different from just being big then.

Right? I mean with these sorts of things you might want to look up the definitions before posting.

Jesus H Christ...

Can a maximalist book be short?

I can't think of a single example but I wouldn't be able to rule it out completely

MISS MACINTOSH, MY DARLING

>I can't think of a single example
That's a problem.

for you

You want beef? I've got one for you kiddo:

The Anthropic Cosmological Principle

I do believe I was referring to novels.

What's your point?

What's yours?

Short and Maximalist are not mutually exclusive

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Pynchon or Wallace's short stories. Agape Agape. there are probably plenty more, esp if you widen yr definition to include stuff like Sartor Resartus and Sir Thomas Browne

Well I specifically want very long maximalist novels.

Seconded

Joseph and His Brothers
The Rosy Crucifixion
Berlin Alexanderplatz
Trainspotting/Porno/Skagboys
Dhalgren
JR
The Recognitions
Life and Fate

To be honest, I'm not sure I understand your criteria for Maximalism, but at least some of these should hot the mark.