Shortly after, a slave arrived at Caesarâs house to warn him of the plot against his life. But he was too late: Caesar had left. A short while later, a man named Artemidorus of Cnidus pushed through the jostling crowds and handed Caesar a roll setting out details of the plot.
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 or illicit ways.
This, of course, doesnât capture it all, but as a working definition for this literary movement, itâs the best weâve got. Transgressive fiction is, to really dumb it down, fringe fiction. The topics are taboo and the characters are not people you know. Thereâs a stark nihilism touching every bit of the world in a piece of transgressive fiction.