The reality of fiction in a literary world: on an excerpt from Stanisław Lem’s Solaris
Using an excerpt from Stanisław Lem’s Solaris, this article explores the idea that, in a literary text, a fictional world and the world of physical reality may interact to form such a reality that can paradoxically turn out to be more real than what we believe to be the actual reality. It is also shown that the fictional world realized in a literary text may bring ...
The ordinary person in the fictional world of Alexander Galich
... ‘characterology’ is identified. The groundwork for a classification of the ordinary person types is laid and key motifs of plots introducing the types are described. The Soviet small person is considered in the structural context of Galich’s fictional world in view of his ontology, anthropology, and creative philosophy.
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