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.
Most people know Kurt Vonnegut Jr. for his novels, but I know him through one particular work of his short fiction: âHarrison Bergeron,â a look at a future when everyone is âfinally equal.â I had adopted the text into my intro English courses upon consulting a list of student favorites: along with Kate Chopinâs âStory of an Hourâ and John Updikeâs â ...