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Re:When arts die, they turn into hobbies by thebooktocome on Wednesday January 28, 2015 @04:55PM (#8962802)
The Aubrey-Maturin series, including "Master and Commander", is actually quite good and of significant literary merit.
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Re:When arts die, they turn into hobbies by puranjay on Wednesday January 28, 2015 @05:22PM (#8962932)
You can go deeper and apply the author's argument to literary fiction itself. "Master and Commander" is probably literary fiction's "major art", while something like Finnegan's Wake is the 'craft' of the literary fiction writers.
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Re:When arts die, they turn into hobbies by jccooper on Wednesday January 28, 2015 @05:57PM (#8963099)
Sure, but it's not "literary fiction". You can tell because it has a plot and I can find it in a bookstore. Literary fiction is the "art for art's sake" side of fiction writing.
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Re:When arts die, they turn into hobbies by dgabriel on Wednesday January 28, 2015 @06:39PM (#8963298)
No... that's not true at all. Books like Lolita, Catch-22, Animal Farm, and To Kill a Mockingbird are all considered literary fiction.
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