What distinguishes literary fiction from general fiction is subjective. Generally literary fiction is considered to have some claim to literary merit, being "writerly". These books are concerned with psychological depth and character development as opposed to popular genres concerned mostly with... [more]
What distinguishes literary fiction from general fiction is subjective. Generally literary fiction is considered to have some claim to literary merit, being "writerly". These books are concerned with psychological depth and character development as opposed to popular genres concerned mostly with narrative and plot. [show less]
Set against the backdrop of French colonial Vietnam, The Lover reveals the intimacies and intricacies of a clandestine romance between a pubescent girl from a financially strapped French family and an older, wealthy Chinese man.
In 1929, a 15 year old nameless girl is trav ...
Woman of the Dunes is a novel by Kōbō Abe and a film based on the novel directed by Hiroshi Teshigahara. The novel was published in 1962, and the film was released in 1964. Kōbō Abe also wrote the screenplay for the film version.