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Originally Posted by Hitch
Myself--for whatever that's worth--I tend to categorize books as LitFic if the "action" is primarily internal to the character(s). The conflicts and challenges are character-driven and emotional/mental, rather than fighting external problems. (Fighting Evil Empires, finding Murderers and all that).
That's not to say that LitFic is plotless. It's just that I view the goals of the characters as being decidedly different. In Genre, the characters change and develop, in service of fighting some external problem. In LitFic, they change and develop in service of fighting some internal problem, challenge or personal issue.
{Shrug}. But that's just me.
Hitch
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That is a very useful definition of Litfic. I always thought literary fiction books were of the type hosted by the 2nd book club on mobilread - which technically might be the truth. Your take on it irons out a lot of confusion that I had.