Have you ever thought about what fiction is? Probably, such a question may seem surprising: and so everything is clear. Every person throughout his life has to repeatedly create the works he needs for specific purposes - statements, autobiographies, dictations - using not gypsum or clay, not musical notes, not paints, but just a word. At the same time, almost every person will be very surprised if he is told that he thereby created a work of fiction, which is very different from visual art, music and sculpture making. However, everyone understands that a student's essay or dictation is fundamentally different from novels, short stories, news that are created by professional writers. In the works of professionals there is the most important difference - excogitation. But, oddly enough, in a school literature course, you don’t realize the full power of fiction. So using our website in your free time discover fiction for yourself. Look at that by - (read ebook pdf .txt) 📖
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37 Literary meaning of the word literature(λογοτεχνία) in Greek, that is the art(techne) of discourse(logos).
38 Actor in Greek is ηθοποιός (ethopoios) meaning someone who makes ethos.
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demand.”
“An anti-novel then?”
“Not even close, unless by that we mean that I wrote the anti-book of all I have discarded as a reader. A me-ta-novel though, definitely. The novel part, of course, is quote unquote.”
“A meta-novel? Meaning?”
“The word says it all. It is the novel of a novel.”
“Wow!”
“Wow or Oh shit, only time will tell.”
“But it is already telling. You were published right off the bat. Did it surprise you at all?”
“To be honest, I expected as much. I submitted an of-fer to the publisher which, quite simply, they did not have the luxury to refuse, since aside from the text it also included approximately twenty-five short stories, two or three novellas, a couple of interviews, a truck-load of aphorisms, and an infinite number of haikus all in one. I exercised, in short, such coldblooded black-mail, until, to paraphrase Voltaire, they bellowed: “I disagree with everything you write and how you write it, as well as the fact that you are writing it at all, how-
Why not add a title in every chapter? I.e. the 22nd will be ‘Interview No 1’.
And the 23rd ‘Interview No 2’.
Are you sure it was not Molière?
Rather: Not only…, but you brought the house down.
Given that your work was, not even with praise, given the thumbs down by about ten publishing houses, what if, for a more realistic effect, you had it - as the famous Amanda Hocking did - published as an eBook on the internet, unexpectedly becom-ing a hit, and then those same ones who had reject-ed you begging you on their knees to come back.
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ever, I will defend with my life your right to be read.”
“I suspect more relentless chatting-up rather than cold-hearted extortion.”
“Chatting up of who? The publisher?”
“Chatting up erga omnes39 I would say, rather. No one appears on the bestsellers list for a tenth continuous week by chance.”
“That’s a good point. I’ll reserve a seat from now for the coming reprint. With your permission of course.”
“But of course,
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