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The Aubrey-Maturin series, including "Master and Commander", is actually quite good and of significant literary merit.
by thebooktocome 12y ago
The Aubrey-Maturin series, including "Master and Commander", is actually quite good and of significant literary merit.
- puranjay 12y agoYou can go deeper and apply the author's argument to literary fiction itself. "Master and Commander" is probably literary fiction's "major art", while something like Finnegan's Wake is the 'craft' of the literary fiction writers.
- jccooper 12y agoSure, but it's not "literary fiction". You can tell because it has a plot and I can find it in a bookstore. Literary fiction is the "art for art's sake" side of fiction writing.
- dgabriel 12y agoNo... that's not true at all. Books like Lolita, Catch-22, Animal Farm, and To Kill a Mockingbird are all considered literary fiction.