How does book feel about transgressive fiction? Any favorite authors or books? Any must reads/recommendations for this genre?
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Anonymous2009-06-24 1:48
What the heck is transgressive fiction?
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Anonymous2009-06-24 6:45
I don't know what "transgressive fiction" is, and I bet it's something really stupid, too.
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Anonymous2009-06-24 12:04
its great OP!!!
i love it
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Anonymous2009-06-24 12:34
By what standards? Like a baby getting raped and then murdered and eaten?
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Anonymous2009-06-26 16:17
Transgressive fiction is a genre of literature that focuses on characters who feel confined by the norms and expectations of society and who use unusual and/or illicit ways to break free of those confines. Because they are rebelling against the basic norms of society, protagonists of transgressional fiction may seem mentally ill, anti-social and/or nihilistic. The genre deals extensively with taboo subject matters such as drugs, sex, violence, incest, pedophilia, and crime.
-wikipedia
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Anonymous2009-06-26 20:18
Chuck Palahniuk.
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Anonymous2009-06-27 12:55
>>drugs, sex, violence, incest, pedophilia, and crime.
just go browse around ASSTR, lol
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Anonymous2009-06-27 13:03
American Psycho
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Anonymous2009-06-27 17:12
Lolita, Vladmir Nabokov
1984, George Orwell
Brave New World, Aldous Huxley
That's just from the top of my head, and all classics too. Sadly, this is not my subject of expertise.
Also, would you like a loudmouthed rebel or someone who knows how to work in the shadow and do his dirty deeds anyway?
I'd be interested in reading about the later. Very interested, even.