Hmm the OG of all Industrial Age genre fiction, Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, had elements of at least 3 distinct later genres: sf, horror, fantasy (via zombies). I’m fascinated by genre fiction, it interests me way more than literary fiction.
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in the west? because the west is inherently violent, early sci-fi books were just militaristic wank off sessions largely speaking
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The history of novels is a history of further separation from reality. First there was stuff like sci fi. Then there was entire worlds separate from our own. We’re getting closer to acceptance of nonsense literature as serious.
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Just like our economy is getting more abstract, so is our literature(and maybe art more generally).
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It degraded into magic realism maybe
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Hmm that’s not quite nonsense though. More like surrealist literary fantasy.
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Well there’s absurdist fiction — Godot, The Rhinoceros, stuff like that. Mainly theater. I don’t know who likes that stuff, but it was a literary genre, at least for a while.
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