I dislike the term "literary fiction": who decides what the adjective applies to and why? "Literary" fiction is just fiction with pretension that are frequently not met or, if they are, result in overly mannered novels. Take it from an expert whose job is to read, write about, and teach novels!
I figure it’s basically a marketing term, often used when there’s not a clear genre you can stick it in.
The Wikipedia description for literary fiction is hilarious. The authors seem so desperate to write ‘boring’. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Literar...
But what about fictive literature, no-one ever talks about that?