…a kind of writing which simply makes you feel very strange; the way that living in the twentieth century makes you feel, if you are a person of a certain sensibility.
Tag: Literary Fiction
In publishing, literary fiction novels are regarded as having more literary merit than most commercial or “genre” fiction.
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All the same, a number of major literary figures have also written genre fiction, for example, John Banville publishes crime novels as Benjamin Black, and both Doris Lessing and Margaret Atwood have written science fiction.
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Furthermore, Nobel laureate André Gide stated that Georges Simenon, best known as the creator of the fictional detective Jules Maigret, was “the most novelistic of novelists in French literature”.
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The notion that literary fiction has more merit as art than genre fiction is only believed people with crowbars up their collective keisters. – GTJ