Minimalism

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Gerakan di pelbagai bentuk seni dan reka. Dalam sastera, paling menonjol. Novel-novel Ernest Hemingway. Skrip-skrip pentas Samuel Beckett. Filem-filem Robert Bresson. Cerpen-cerpen Raymond Carver.

Pengawalan ayat. Buang kata keterangan. Asas. Kondens. Padat. Membiarkan konteks memberi maksud. Pembaca mengambil peranan aktif dalam pembikinan cerita. Berpandukan innuendo dan kiasan.

Ernest Hemingway. "Hills Like White Elephants". Nada watak tidak pernah dijelaskan. Memaksa pembaca untuk meneka. Latarbelakang menyokong cerita. Secara simbolik. Tapi tak pernah jelas.

Penulis cereka jenayah era 40-an. James M. Cain. Jim Thompson. Prosa telanjang.

Contoh lain. Chunk Palahniuk. Amy Hempel. Bobbie Ann Mason. Tobias Wolff. Grace Paley. Sandra Cisneros. Mary Robison. Frederick Barthelme.

Atau.

Harold Pinter. Jenaka ancaman. Pinteresque. "We don't need critics to tell the audiences what to think."

Martin Esslin. The People Wound (1970). Mengenai Pinter. "Every syllable, every inflection, the succession of long and short sounds, words and sentences, is calculated to nicety. And precisely the repetitiousness, the discontinuity, the circularity of ordinary vernacular speech are here used as formal elements with which the poet can compose his linguistic ballet."