Quote:
Originally Posted by Sirtel
Real life is real life and fiction is fiction. Fiction does not have to be always nice and politically correct. Well, in my personal opinion, of course.
|
This is a
digression, but I want to point out that politically correct isn't necessarily "nice" - at least if by "nice" you mean pleasant and toothless and uncontroversial. (That might not be what you meant, of course.)
Some really good novels which are "politically correct" but very far from nice:
- The Hate U Give (teenager witnesses a friend being killed by the police)
- Code Name Verity (British agent in a Gestapo prison)
- Every Heart a Doorway (murder mystery at a boarding school for the kids who come back from magic lands)
- In Other Lands (love and friendship and adventure, but also abuse, grief, and child soldiers)
- Who Fears Death (revenge and war and magic and genital mutilation)
Or if we're going for classics: Nothing New on the Western Front, 1984, and The Handmaid's Tale.