Literary fiction is a genre of imaginative and creative writing that is known for its literary merit, including character development, themes, and symbolism. There are many antonyms for the term "literary fiction," such as commercial fiction and popular fiction. Commercial fiction typically focuses on plot-driven stories that are written to be entertaining and appealing to a wide audience. Popular fiction refers to works that are widely known and popular among readers of all ages. These genres often prioritize commercial success and popularity over literary quality, and may not have the same level of depth and complexity as literary fiction.

Famous quotes with Literary fiction

• At 20, 25, 30, we begin to realise that the possibilities of escape are getting fewer. We have jobs, children, partners, debts. This is the part of us to which literary fiction speaks.

  Mark Haddon
• I don't mean that literary fiction is better than genre fiction, On the contrary; novels can perform two functions and most perform only one.

  Mark Haddon
• When authors who write literary fiction begin to write screenplays, everybody assumes that's the end. Here's another who's never going to write well again.

  Richard Russo
• No one in my family was a reader of literary fiction. So, I didn't have encouragement, but I didn't have discouragement, because I don't think anybody knew what that meant.

  Amy Tan
• With his sense of the ridiculous anchored in the Buddhist doctrine of emptiness, therefore, the author mocks all the monsters as he mocks all the pilgrims and celestials in the book. Not only is everything infinitely amusing to his observant eye, but in the ultimate religious sense everything that exists is but maya [illusion] with which we are infatuated. Even the most serious character and the one nearest to approaching an understanding of emptiness, Monkey himself, is not spared this affectionate ridicule. To readers conditioned to accept the reality of literary fiction, this attempt at constant negation can be at times very unsettling. Writing from the Christian viewpoint which accords reality to every soul be it suffering eternal damnation in hell or rejoicing in eternal bliss in paradise, Dante has created a massive comedy of substantial reality designed to elicit our strongest emotional responses. Wu Ch'eng-en, on the other hand, provides in episode after comic episode the illusion of mythical reality, but then inevitably exposes the falsehood of that reality in furtherance of his Buddhist comedy.

  Wu Cheng'en

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