NOT KNOWN FACTS ABOUT LITERARY FICTION

Philosophical fiction was not accurately new. Plato's dialogues were embedded in fictional narratives and his Republic is definitely an early illustration of a Utopia. Ibn Tufail's 12th century Philosophus Autodidacticus with its Tale of a human outcast surviving on an island, as well as the 13th century reaction by Ibn al-Nafis, Theologus Autodida