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I've never really understood "literary genre", it is kind of meaningless given it's all literature regardless of what merit you think it has. I think modern "genre fiction" never really shrugged off it's pulpy roots and the disdain some people had for it. Literary fiction largely seems to be a way for those readers and authors to distance themselves from it despite quite often dabbling in the tropes that define genre fiction.
You see it quite a lot with obvious science fiction written by literary author's who will come up with all sorts of ridiculous reasons why their book isn't science fiction, though more often than not make snarky comments about little green men.
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