Truth of fiction might sound like a paradox, at least within the Platonic doxa. But perhaps there is no truth without fiction; Plato's own myths would testify to this necessary combination of "history" and "story...
Many Russian scholars have expounded Dostoevsky's religious outlooks, which are embodied in Petersburg's religious myths. Dostoevsky describes the fantasy of Petersburg in the hands of the devil, and he also adds a ...