5 EASY FACTS ABOUT LITERARY FICTION DESCRIBED

Philosophical fiction wasn't specifically new. Plato's dialogues were being embedded in fictional narratives and his Republic is really an early example of a Utopia. Ibn Tufail's 12th century Philosophus Autodidacticus with its Tale of the human outcast surviving on an island, and also the 13th century response by Ibn al-Nafis, Theologus Autodidact