The question of the boundaries of fiction arises from what, paraphrasing Houellebecq, might be called the extension of the domain of fiction. We've gone so far as to speak of panfictionalism: everything would be fiction, or at the very least, all discourse would be fictional to some degree. But what exactly is fiction? What is the criterion for distinguishing fictional from non-fictional? A number of professors at the Collège de France, joined by other colleagues, have taken up this question and propose to tackle it by crossing disciplines: history, philosophy, literary theory.
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