Maximalist Novel
Subtitle: From Thomas Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow to Roberto Bolano's 2666
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic & Professional
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 192
ISBN-13: 9781623561901
Description: "The maximalist novel has a very strong symbolic and morphological identity. Ercolino sets out ten particular elements which define and structure it as a complex literary form: length, an encyclopedic mode, dissonant chorality, diegetic exuberance, completeness, narrratorial omniscience, paranoid imagination, inter-semiocity, ethical commitment, and hybrid realism. These ten characteristics are common to all of the seven works that centre his discussion: Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon, Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace, Underworld by Don DeLillo, White Teeth by Zadie Smith, The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen, 2666 by Roberto Bolaño, and 2005 dopo Cristo by the Babette Factory."--Bloomsbury Publishing.