LITERARY FICTION NO FURTHER A MYSTERY

Philosophical fiction was not just new. Plato's dialogues ended up embedded in fictional narratives and his Republic is really an early illustration of a Utopia. Ibn Tufail's 12th century Philosophus Autodidacticus with its story of a human outcast surviving on an island, as well as thirteenth century reaction by Ibn al-Nafis, Theologus Autodidactu