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.
As a reaction against the demands of mainstream verisimilar fiction, writers of metafiction or postmodernist irony have sought to deconstruct or redefine fictional narration by using techniques that encourage readers to see the text as a fabric of language rather than a documentation of reality. It reminds the reader that the previously highly ...