THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF LITERARY FICTION

Philosophical fiction was not just new. Plato's dialogues were being embedded in fictional narratives and his Republic can be an early example of a Utopia. Ibn Tufail's twelfth century Philosophus Autodidacticus with its Tale of a human outcast surviving on an island, and also the thirteenth century reaction by Ibn al-Nafis, Theologus Autodidactus