NOT KNOWN FACTS ABOUT LITERARY FICTION

Philosophical fiction wasn't particularly new. Plato's dialogues have been embedded in fictional narratives and his Republic is undoubtedly an early example of a Utopia. Ibn Tufail's 12th century Philosophus Autodidacticus with its Tale of the human outcast surviving on an island, and the 13th century response by Ibn al-Nafis, Theologus Autodidactu