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What is the biggest book about the smallest story ever?

Example: 1000 pages book about a one hour conversation?

>> No.8587829

>>8587814
Supposedly there's a Finnish book where it takes 60 pages for the main characrter to walk to the mantelpiece.

>> No.8587831

Supposedly there's an Azerbaijani book where it takes 1200 pages for the author to write the first letter

>> No.8587833

>>8587814

Maybe The Fermata by Nicholson Baker, which has sections (or the whole book maybe) in which time is standing still

>> No.8587835

Ulysses

>> No.8587846

Supposedly there's a South Georgian book where it takes the main character 1800 pages to blink

>> No.8587852

>>8587814
Infininite Jest goes 1,000 pages without saying anything at all....

>> No.8587860

No memes, only suggestions please.

>> No.8587960

>>8587833
Baker's The Mezzanine takes place entirely within the passage to said mezzanine. Neatly done. I liked it

>> No.8588918

>>8587852
Devastation

And OP, there's supposedly a trilogy of 3000-page Zimbabwean epic poems where it takes the author 9000 pages to write his name on the front cover.

>> No.8588929

The majority of Miss MacIntosh, My Darling takes place on a single bus journey