What is the most /lit/ genre of fiction and why is it historical

historical fiction is a broad genre really.
I feel like you're right but not in the case of recreating major historical events but more in exploring the lesser known aspects of history throguh fiction.

>>9554959
Or using a historical era/event as the backdrop or building block of your story

>>9554957

I avoid it because I don't want the purity of my historical understanding to be tainted by some autist's fanfiction. I think it's by far the most pleb genre.

>>9554957
The most /lit/ genre is "miscategorized as magical realism"

Slice of life

>>9554989
>purity of historical understanding
so innocent

>>9554989
If you look at it that way all fiction is some autist's fanfiction

>>9554989
Try the Aubrey–Maturin series

Patrick O'Brian once wrote "Obviously, I have lived very much out of the world: I know little of present-day Dublin or London or Paris, even less of post-modernity, post-structuralism, hard rock or rap, and I cannot write with much conviction about the contemporary scene."

>Historical fiction is a literary genre in which the plot takes place in a setting located in the past. Historical fiction can be an umbrella term; though commonly used as a synonym for describing the historical novel; the term can be applied to works in other narrative formats, such as those in the performing and visual arts like theatre, opera, cinema and television, as well as video games and graphic novels.

>An essential element of historical fiction is that it is set in the past and pays attention to the manners, social conditions and other details of the period depicted.[1]

Disgusting. There's no excuse for setting books in the past nowadays.

>>9555059
That's literally the opposite of the truth
Nowadays is fucking shit for plots, history is rife with exciting times that can help you explore whatever your theme is about.

>>9555017
Historical slice of life is as god tier as you can get

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Like any genre, it has potential,in reality it's mostly cop out for hacks like Sienkiewicz to write glorified melodrama.

Who /MastersofRome/ here?

>>9555188
I was discussing about master of rome in /his/ last night.
Scaurus Princep senatus best girl.

>>9555438
He's pretty great

>>9554989
Fiction is all lies. That's what makes it fiction.

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This and Laurus best historical fiction of the last year for me

its still genre fiction so no, its not lit. fantasy novels with romans are still shit

>>9555735
what is lit then?

Nautical fiction

>>9555070
Slice of life by an author that lived then, not by an author now set in a historical time.

>>9555017
^

>>9555735
>historical fiction is genre fiction
Dumbest statement currently on /lit/, good job.

>>9555874
Baby don't hurt me

>>9555735
but isn't anything written taking place in the past with accurate depictions of the surrounding locale and culture of that era technically historical fiction