A study of the main elements of fiction, such as narrative, detail, characterization, dialogue, realism, and style. It takes the machinery of story-telling apart to ask a series of fundamental questions: What do we mean when we say we 'know' a fictional character? What constitutes a 'telling' detail? And, when is a metaphor successful?
Historia, literatura, sociedad no es quizá el orden de palabras más frecuente pero, en nuestro caso, la secuencia está muy deliberadamente elegida. A fin de cuentas, este libro sostiene que una «verd
