Transgressive Fiction

wikipedia: "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 and/or illicit ways."

I'm no expert but I'd broadly define the genre in terms of controversial subject matter, repulsive characters, antisocial behaviours, grim storylines, bizarre settings and other stuff that the normals don't like.

e.g. Irvine Welsh, Chuck Palahniuk, Bret Easton Ellis, Charles Bukowski, H
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