Transgressive Fiction

Transgressive fiction is a genre of literature that focuses on characters who feel confined by the norms and expectations of society and who use unusual and/or illicit ways to break free of those confines. Because they are rebelling against the basic norms of society, protagonists of transgressional fiction may seem mentally ill, anti-social and/or nihilistic. The genre deals extensively with taboo subject matters such as drugs, sex, violence, incest, pedophilia, and crime.

The genre of "transgressive fiction" was defined by Los Angeles Times literary critic Michael Silverblatt.[1] Anne H. Souk
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Fight Club
American Psycho
A Clockwork Orange
Invisible Monsters
Choke
The Elephant Tree
The Zombie Room
Trainspotting
Survivor
Naked Lunch: The Restored Text
Lolita
Less Than Zero
Requiem for a Dream
Red Russia
Crash
Logan Ryan Smith
“ Before I dragged her by the legs back to The Memory Palace, I cut my unborn brother from her stomach with my bowie knife and flung his red-glistened body by the toe into the nearest garbage mountain, the nearest Hades. ”
― Logan Ryan Smith, The Sun My Destiny

Neda Aria
“ You are not a reproductive machine. Do you get it? I saved you from slavery. ”
― Neda Aria, Feminomaniacs

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