"Sanctimony literature errs, then...because it displays no genuine curiosity about what it really means to be good, and is blind to the distinction between morality and moralism, and exhibits no doubt about its own probity" libertiesjournal.com/now-showing/sa…
I haven't written a book so I'm probably not one to comment but my position on this has always been that these novels/written are naturally more interested in the aesthetics of certain politics than the life itself, and the writers are too afraid to condemn their characters.
I know why people like sanctimonious books but they're barely interesting. Even worse is the opposite, the supposedly provocative books that are just the status quo presented as shocking.
But I also recognize that this is the normal cycle of each generation, even though the sanctimonious novel is dull. Someone does a certain style of book that sells well. Plenty of others imitate it and sell well. Critics complain about the style and its failings. The world turns.
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