In her book Talking About Detective Fiction, P.D. James begins a chapter discussing setting, viewpoint and people with the following comments:

Reading any work of fiction is a symbiotic act.  We the readers contribute our imagination to that of the writer, willingly entering his world, participating in the lives of its people and forming from the ( Read more... )

A confluence of events have put the matter of fiction within fiction on my mind this last weekend.

My friend, James A. Owen (or coppervale  here on JL) posted a set of pictures of his illustrations for volumes 2-5 of his series, The Imaginarium Geographica.  Although his stories are more taking literary figures (and fictional ones) and tossing them together ( Read more... )