THE SMART TRICK OF LITERARY FICTION THAT NOBODY IS DISCUSSING

Philosophical fiction was not specifically new. Plato's dialogues have been embedded in fictional narratives and his Republic can be 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 13th century reaction by Ibn al-Nafis, Theologus Autod