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It appears you're actually both on the same page, you didn't say the opposite. He's saying the common fiction including best sellers are generally predictable.
by fouc 6y ago
It appears you're actually both on the same page, you didn't say the opposite.
He's saying the common fiction including best sellers are generally predictable. And literary novels being less so.
- pattusk 6y agoNot really, there is a difference of scale to consider. Best sellers are unpredictable from one page to the next, unexpected surprises abound but the general plot is highly predictable. Literary novels typically have very mundane, thoroughly predictable narratives, what is unexpected is the way in which it is delivered or the comments the narrator may make along the way. The original author refers to fiction [which] entertains readers by baffling and eluding their expectations about what, specifically, will happen next. Which I believe is closer to the way popular fiction operates than to literary fiction.