What is the literary equivalent of Oscar bait and why is this

>>8982636
>What is the literary equivalent of Oscar bait
Overwritten tripe
>why is this stuff never called out
Because /lit/ wants to prove how smart(tm) they all are.

Because there isn't a awards system based on popularity, mo ney, and business contacts in the literary fiction world.

Your choices in comparisons are stupid and you sound like a pleb though.

>>8982667
>Because there isn't a awards system based on popularity, mo ney, and business contacts in the literary fiction world.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

>>8982719
>>>8982667 (You)
>>Because there isn't a awards system based on popularity, mo ney, and business contacts in the literary fiction world.
>HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

I said literary fiction not genre

>>8982636

I don't think that type of po-mo stuff is popular among awards anymore. These days the real Oscar Bait novels are stuff by authors like Jonathan Franzen and Jennifer Egan, novels that borrow some of the irony and satire from DeLillo and Pynchon, but water it down a lot. They're (semi-)realistic fiction about liberals that try to deal with "the great issues of (post)modern life" or some shit, but ultimately end up reinforcing middle-of-the-road traditional values anyway.