- Date added
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May 20, 2021, 10:20 p.m.
- Description
- We might still want to argue that literary fiction is, on the whole, less plot-driven than genre fiction. However, this comes from something that I think is very important about literary fiction; that it is less constrained by structural and genre conventions than genre fiction. This is not a criticism of genre conventions. Some of the books I love most are genre novels that play brilliantly with the conventions of their own genre, such as Tana French’s crime novels, or George R.R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire. But as a reader, I do want to have access to books that don’t need to prioritise plot and pace above all else, that are allowed to break storytelling ‘rules’ about satisfying midpoints and endings.
