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transgressive fiction

trans·gres·sive fic·tion


noun 
Definition:
 
literature of taboo: a literary genre characterized by graphic exploration of taboo topics, to which the work of writers such as the Marquis de Sade and William Burroughs belongs. It is based on the belief that knowledge is to be found at the very edge of human experience.

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