Does literary fiction need a plot?
??? Seriously? Do you have to ask?
poo
>>8018600
What if the author just wants to write stream of consciousness and alternate with words that make beautiful sentences, and doesn't want to shoehorn in a plot?
Surely, those too sussed will just decide on a plot themselves after reading it.
I await
>>8018595
does it need character? narration? setting? imagery? symbolism? allegory? metaphor? style? plot is just a literary device like any other my man.
Bump for interest.
I want to write a literary fiction short story but I can't think of any climax that isn't melodramatic as fuck. How does one into writing a good literary fiction.
No.
>>8018595
The reason plot isn't as important as, say, theme is because plot doesn't consist in our lives. Literary fiction is all about the "human condition" and whatnot, and it tends to make a broad statement. (Mind you, "statement" [at least the way I see it] is different from "message".) And some might say, why not just write an essay or piece of nonfiction?
The answer to that is because fiction provides the opportunity for characters, or "humans", to behave in their natural habitat, so the "human condition" becomes much more clear through a narrative than an essay or article, and all a plot would do is distract the actual situation, or "condition."
You get me, pham?
>>8018811
Read Alice Munro. She's ideal for proper climaxes of short stories. They're subtle but always just right. Trust me, she's amazing.
