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ByThomas G. Pavel

Fictional Worlds

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“If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.” –Haruki Murakami

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Created worlds may resemble the actual world, but they can just as easily be deemed incomplete, precarious, or irrelevant. Why, then, does fiction continue to pull us in and, more interesting perhaps, how? In this beautiful book Pavel provides a poetics of the imaginary worlds of fiction, their properties and their reason for being.

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