Name a twentieth-century English-language novelist who had NO gimmicks.
Pic not fucking related.
>>8886531
me but i suck
>>8886531
Fitzgerald, Great Gatsby is without gimmicks anyway
>>8886531
what is a gimmick?
>>8886531
End notes aren't a gimmick they've been used throughout history. Read Broom of the System and The Pale King and his short stories to see that he could write amazing stuff without them.
What are you even asking anyway? A writer who just uses a linear narrative?
>>8886595
He had like fifty gimmicks, not just notes.
>>8886531
Somerset Maugham
>>8886595
AND
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>>8886531
John Williams
Flannery O'Connor
Breece D'J Pancake
>>8886534
And it's shit
>>8887087
>Pancake
gimmick name