FACTS ABOUT LITERARY FICTION REVEALED

Philosophical fiction was not precisely new. Plato's dialogues had been embedded in fictional narratives and his Republic can be an early illustration of a Utopia. Ibn Tufail's 12th century Philosophus Autodidacticus with its Tale of a human outcast surviving on an island, along with the 13th century response by Ibn al-Nafis, Theologus Autodidactus