Do you think we'll ever see a return of novels and poems that are huge in scope?

Homer, Virgil, Dante, and Milton encompass the entire cosmos in their epics. In his own way, Melville does the same with Moby-Dick. But it feels like it's been a while since we had a story that was as BIG as that, in its size and ambitions, and in the power of its characters too, I suppose.

It almost seems like ever since Joyce wrote Ulysses, everybody has wanted to write small stories, instead of big stories. Maybe the only BIG story written, at least in popular culture, since the end of World War 2 is Blood Meridian.

Big stories require a lot of research, and most authors aren't interested in doing research. Leo Tolstoy spent six years researching and writing War and Peace.

Have you already forgotten the most eminent novel of our times? Harry Potter? Considered together, the scope of these books far surpasses Moby Dick or Ulysses.

>>24568720 (OP)
Brandon Sanderson. Thank me later.

>>24568720 (OP)
>Virgil

>>24568720 (OP)
Laiseca's Los Sorias. Peak /litfit/.
The owner of a bookstore in Mar del Plata let me hold this book. Most of us wouldn't be able to read it.

>>24568954
it looks so thick but supposedly it's only about 1400 pages, which should place it close to War & Peace.

I hope so. There are many distractions right now though so probably not for a while.

>>24568720 (OP)
One Piece

>>24568930
Good kek, I glossed over that at first