THE ULTIMATE GUIDE TO LITERARY FICTION

Philosophical fiction wasn't precisely new. Plato's dialogues ended up 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, along with the 13th century response by Ibn al-Nafis, Theologus Autodida