From Thomas Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow to Roberto Bolano's 2666
by
Stefano Ercolino
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2014
The Maximalist Novel sets out to define a new genre of contemporary fiction that developed in the United States from the early 1970s, and then gained popularity in Europe in the early twenty-first century.
The maximalist novel has a very strong symbolic and morphological identity. Ercolino...