Like his creator, Rex Stout, who was a math prodigy by the age of 9 and had polished off his father's 1,126-volume library before he reach puberty, Nero Wolfe manifested his intellect (and Olympian arrogance) from the outset of his fictive life.
Marian Sutro lives a rich fictive life, far from the curdled purlieus of Bond-dom – not least in the job she finds with the Franco-British Pacidealistic, an idealistic group, working for a sort of Crabbin in a dingy office on High Holborn.
But the traditional lifestyle indicators are replaced by a staple, almost a stereotype, of contemporary art photography: the fictive everyday life of young women of no evident consequence.
Unlike Ilya Kabakov, another creator of fictive living spaces, Mr. Büchel provides no written explanation.
In both her fictive and real life narratives, Ms. Randall doesn't mind an abrupt transition.
In To Catch the Lightning, Alan Cheuse offered a fictive version of the life of Edward S. Curtis, Pacific Northwest photographer of the American Indian.
The BEES is an instrument consisting of 15 positively and 15 negatively worded items that measure emotional responses to fictive situations and particular life events (examples of the items include: "Unhappy movie endings haunt me for hours afterward, I cannot feel much sorrow for those who are responsible for their own misery").
In effect Boyle deconstructs the accepted view of Weimar Classicism to argue that, through Kant, and by an act of "renunciation," Goethe learned to create a modern, fictive, "multiple self," intimate with life's tragic chaos.
Along with Pound, Milton, and the fictive Ern Malley, Joseph Conrad haunts "My Life as a Fake".
Originating from countries with rampant corruption, the fictive scripts pullulate with a real-life backstory and presents an interesting intersection of the real and imaginary: non-existent scams, sent by real people under false pretenses, present the opportunity (unfortunate) for equally real victims to unknowingly participate in the scam.
The fictive scream stems from his own real-life reaction to a romantic setback, and it takes place in the same locale, the Black Forest above the village of Ettlingen.
