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"Artistic pretension" as a book-category describes works that foreground style, ambition and self-conscious artistry to the point where form and gestures of high culture can overshadow plot or accessibility. These books often feature ornate or experimental prose, dense symbolism and frequent philosophical or intertextual references, narrators or characters who adopt an air of cultivated taste, and structural or metafictional devices that signal intellectual seriousness. The label can apply both to novels that earnestly pursue avant-garde risks and to satirical or critical takes that expose the affectation itself; in practice it flags writing likely to be polarizing — intoxicating to readers who prize literary daring and cultural nuance, off-putting to those who prefer clarity and straightforward storytelling.

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