Recursive metafiction worships the narrative consciousness, makes ‘it’ the subject of the text. Minimalism’s even worse, emptier, because it’s a fraud: it eschews not only self-reference but any narrative personality at all, tries to pretend there ‘is’ no narrative consciousness in its text. This is so fucking American, man: either make something your God and cosmos and then worship it, or else kill it.
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| — | David Foster Wallace in conversation with Larry McCaffery |
