Shortly after, a slave arrived at Caesarâs house to warn him of the plot against his life. But he was too late: Caesar had left. A short while later, a man named Artemidorus of Cnidus pushed through the jostling crowds and handed Caesar a roll setting out details of the plot.
Transgressive fiction is a genre of literature that focuses on characters who feel confined by the norms and expectations of society and who break free of those confines in unusual or illicit ways.
Slipstream fiction, anyone? I was reading a blog and came across a genre of fiction that I had not heard of before: slipstream fiction. Defined as fiction (both lit and speculative writing) that creates either a surreal effect or cognitive dissonance in the reader... Has anyone else ever heard of this genre?