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Literary fiction is a shelf, not a genre
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Despite its reputation as the pinnacle of prose, literary fiction is not a true genre with defining structural elements. It is primarily a retail bucket utilized by publishers to separate character-driven, realistic narratives from genre fiction like mystery or fantasy, essentially signaling to critics and award committees that a specific book is meant to be taken very, very seriously.
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