transgressive fiction

have any of yall read Amygdalatropolis by b.r. yeager? pretty light read that has novel structuring where you're reading a story, alongside someone who is constantly posting on imageboards, alongside some philosophical or artistic rambling. if you haven't been reading much lately, i'd recommend it cause it's only 190 pages and with the formatting even someone like me could read the whole book in a saturday. i read it and it got me reading some more transgressive literature like some of dennis cooper's novels and the wasp factory by ian banks. if you have read any of these and have recs for similar books, let me know

Those filters are obnoxious. Body too short btw. 1234567890

i dont think it paints with that broad a brush. the artistic style of incorporating imageboard posts into the prose if really cool to me. i was on /b/ growing up so it was kind of nostalgic. its a really quick read since the stylization eats up a bunch of space and it's only like 190 pages.

it's definitely on my bucket list, i've read yeager's negative space and rlly liked i and ,i've heard great things about this one too

>>12266 Is transgressive fiction some newspeak for transvestite fiction? Because if it is, you can just start by reading any mainstream newspaper.

>>12291 Yeehaw! Based joke, buddy!

>>12266 it's been on my read list for a while now, but i havent committed to buying a copy >>12270 a blog i read once described it more as a warning for where imageboards can lead rather than outright propaganda.

>>12266 What does transgressive fiction mean to you?

Read it due to your post. I enjoyed it, very decent. I’d recommend it for a quick read.

I actually loved this book, which I read on the heels of Negative Space. Maybe I'm easily impressed, but this was one of the best books I've ever read pertaining it's depiction of the internet. Maybe the Sluts by Dennis Cooper comes close, in its approach to forums. I actually feel many authors fail completely in evoking what it feels to inhabit these online spaces, and if nothing else, this book nails that feel. Does anyone have any recommendations of books that also nail the feeling of being online?

It was quite compelling and I found its depiction of nihilism and decay to be very interesting. It also isn't just a blind criticism of people similar to the main character and is instead concerned with a more "metaphysically negative" aspect of decay in cyberspace. I'd recommend Rimbaud's poems if you like any form of transgressive fiction. >>12310 Not OP, but transgressive fiction is only as broad or narrow as its definition. In the most general definition, being "any work that includes a character who undergoes a personal or mental emancipation from a certain confinement", even To Kill a Mockingbird is transgressive fiction.

>>12361 >In the most general definition, being "any work that includes a character who undergoes a personal or mental emancipation from a certain confinement", even To Kill a Mockingbird is transgressive fiction. Oh for fuarrrk's sake. No, we're not doing this. "Genre" refers to publisher-recommendations for bookstores about how to group books by interest so that paying customers can find something that interests them enough that they will exchange money for it. We're not going to have a discussion about whether Kachikujin Yapoo and To Kill a Mockingbird belong in the same sales shelf. I 'member watching a Man Carrying Thing video where he went down internet lists of Transgressive Fiction books and it included fuarrrking "House of Leaves." The second most disappointing moment in said video was when he got to the actual landmark of transgressive literature, "The 100 Days of Sodom," the book for which the marquis declared he wept tears of blood, and his review was "nope couldn't finish it. It transgressed against the boundaries of taste and morality without ultimately reaffirming those boundaries, and didn't have any secondary purpose beyond the transgression itself, as though transgression were the highest aim and purpose." And I couldn't help but think, "is this some sort of meta humor thing where he's intentionally transgressing against transgressive literature for... some reason?" since the same guy gave a glowing review to Georges Bataille's schizo-era sado novella "The Story of the Eye." But no, no, he's just older now and also wasn't primed to pretend the literary community's opinions of deSade were his own the way he was with Bataille. OP, my opinion book-unread is that books that refer to internet culture and try to aim at being transgressive lit will always fail because they will always fixate on identifying the heckin unwholesome bad guy to reject and the aspect of society to reaffirm, even if the bad guy is Der Normal. This is why you will never, ever, ever see a book of transgressive literature that is about the actual most transgressive internet subculture: Women Who Post On Pro-Anorexia Forums In Order To Cause Other Women To Die. There will be an endless tide of transglit about incels or imageboards before anyone, ever, contemplates touching the genuine antilife transgression visible on the female internet sphere. So I'm pretty sure that what you want to talk about is just books about internet subcultures you personally participate in, cynical flavor preferred.