THE SMART TRICK OF LITERARY FICTION THAT NOBODY IS DISCUSSING

Philosophical fiction was not accurately new. Plato's dialogues were being embedded in fictional narratives and his Republic is surely an early example of a Utopia. Ibn Tufail's twelfth century Philosophus Autodidacticus with its story of the human outcast surviving on an island, and the 13th century reaction by Ibn al-Nafis, Theologus Autodidactus