THE SMART TRICK OF LITERARY FICTION THAT NOBODY IS DISCUSSING

Philosophical fiction was not specifically new. Plato's dialogues ended up embedded in fictional narratives and his Republic is undoubtedly an early illustration of a Utopia. Ibn Tufail's twelfth century Philosophus Autodidacticus with its Tale of the human outcast surviving on an island, and also the thirteenth century response by Ibn al-Nafis, Th