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
Choke
A Clockwork Orange
Invisible Monsters
Trainspotting
Survivor
Naked Lunch: The Restored Text
Lolita
Red Russia
Less Than Zero
Haunted
Rant: An Oral Biography of Buster Casey
Requiem for a Dream
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Logan Ryan Smith
Those fucking birds are circling overhead again. Not that I hate them, those fucking birds.
Logan Ryan Smith, The Sun My Destiny

Michal Majernik
Marriage—a time machine for aliens from different dimensions inhabiting a home—the ship they travel—and each met strangers with the same face at the same dinner table and falling in love together again, and again, ...
Michal Majernik, Mechanical Bull

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