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Here fiction is using history to make more history, though of a speculative, fictional kind; and, at the same time, fiction is producing more fiction by pretending to reproduce fact (Bellen's and Groff's "real" essays).
Not only is this a useful tool for plotting world domination (the fictional kind, of course), but it's also a constant reminder to get out there and explore.
Pat Murphy's ADVENTURES IN TIME AND SPACE WITH MAX MERRIWELL (Tor/ Tom Doherty, $24.95) has nothing to do with history and everything to do with imagination, both the scientific and the fictional kind.
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Sickness of a non-fictional kind is the subject of "Before I Say Goodbye", about a journalist with cancer, and of "The Diving Bell and the Butterfly", a translation from French of a book written with eye-blinking by a totally paralysed man.Some successes travel, while others seem to stick at home.
Fictional form is always a kind of death, in the way that Blanchot described actual life.
He's entirely fictional, which is kind of frustrating because half of the characters are nonfictional, so it's the actors who have fictional characters who are perpetually in fear of being killed off [laughs].
He was talking specifically about fictional detail (the kind that pretends to be quietly "irrelevant," like Bob's mole, in one of my hypothetical examples); his larger argument, made elsewhere in his work, was that realistic fiction, like ideology, tries to palm itself off as the most natural and real of literary modes but is in fact the most artificial and unreal.
Now that we've established that these fictional women, the kind of women who get in cat fights in water troughs on Dallas, are not nice, they're about to get more not nice.
For one thing, it postulates an identity of kind between fictional works and fictional entities that is far from intuitively clear.
Nicholas Wolterstorff argues for the view that fictional objects are kinds (Wolterstorff 1980).
It is a dizzying array not merely of biographical episodes, but of different kinds of fiction and fictional character.
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