For me, the weirdest effect of The Clock is that the time references became fictional – I stopped noticing that they were telling me exactly what the time actually was.
In this specific story, we meet a narrator who has become a fictional character against his will.
Wishbone's fantasies went beyond Western literature into Russian, Chinese, and African stories, but he seems to have become only fictional men.
"Jack the Ripper is so embedded within popular culture that he's almost become a fictional character," says Philip Stone, who leads the University of Central Lancashire's Institute for Dark Tourism Research.
Her first collection, "Interpreter of Maladies," displayed a high technical virtuosity while introducing readers to what has become her fictional realm: that small, claustrophobic milieu of Bengali Hindus working research and academic jobs in New England, Boston Brahmins twice over.
I'm too afraid to try learning a second language, much less trying to become a fictional mystery writer in one.
A longtime poster child for wealth, Gatsby has become the fictional centerpiece of a slew of analyses regarding his bank account -- including a lengthy New York magazine piece dissecting the cash flow referenced in the book compared to the titular character's lofty expenses.
On the other hand, fiction becomes more fictional — multiple writers (the author and his censors) are making up a collective story as they go along, improvising, cutting, editing, bargaining with each other.
Duras, her remarks lost or garbled in bad translation, becomes a fictional character, a compensatory fantasy.
It becomes a fictional process without reference back to the historical documentation".
