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What is "literary fiction"? Is it possible that the word "literature" just refers to fiction which has had time to accumulate gravitas, in part due to being ol
by 0xDEAFBEAD 1y ago
What is "literary fiction"?
Is it possible that the word "literature" just refers to fiction which has had time to accumulate gravitas, in part due to being old?
If that's true, "literature" production will always appear to be in decline ;-)
- chairmansteve 1y agoMany years ago, I was in Foyles in London, trying buy A Portait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce. I scoured the fiction section, surprised that they didn't have it. Then I asked a staff member. He told me to look in the Literature section....