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