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Minimalism in literature emerged in the latter half of the 20th century, rejecting traditional literary norms and heavily influenced by Hemingway.
Characterized by a sparse, concise style, minimalism finds its best expression in short stories, focusing on the everyday and mundane.
The movement explores themes of existential isolation, portraying individuals as spiritually orphaned and self-reliant.
Minimalism often reflects a nihilistic view, highlighting the superficiality of modern life and the dominance of materialistic concerns.
Key minimalist authors include John Cheever, Pale, and Raymond Clevie Carver, the latter renowned for his impactful short story collections.

American minimalism: main stylistic and thematic features of the literary movement and main authors ( John Cheever, Pale and Raymond Clevie Carver)

Minimalism is a literary current that developed during the second half of the twentieth century and is based on the refusal of consolidated literary modules.
Minimalism has been greatly influenced and inspired by Hemingway's production.
Minimalism is characterized by a dry, minimal style, and is best expressed in the short term of the story.
Minimalism consists of the description of the reified man and of his united relationships: he is the man who coincides with things, exclusively with his own affairs.

It is the descriptive and never-ending narrative of the spiritually orphaned man, master of himself, to repeat his perfect and contented autonomy both in relation to tradition and to an ever-possible Creator. And this, despite recognizing that one day is unpredictably born and that at another date will be brought to a chest to be permanently buried. Nihilism, fatally, always falls into the narcissistic individualism of desperate and modernist atheism. To the flat banality of things, of the innumerable things, inevitably more or less desired and possessed, corresponds in literature to the ideological superficiality that reduces reality to the measure of what the reified man is able to comprehend and dominate with his existential powderyness.
Among the main authors of this literary current are: John Cheever, Pale and Raymond Clevie Carver. The latter is the acknowledged short story master who I met with a great critical and public fortune with collections "What We Talk About When We Talk About Love", "Cathedral," "Where I'm Calling From."
In these works, Raymond Clevie Carver recounts the desperation of frustration of ordinary people in American society over time.

American minimalism

Appunto con trattazione sintetica di letteratura inglese: il minimalismo americano, principali caratteristiche tematiche e stilistiche.

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