Tag: metafiction

  • When We Cease to Understand the World, Labatut (2021)

    When We Cease to Understand the World, Labatut (2021)

    I respect Benjamin Labatut’s effort. A hard border between fiction and non-fiction is unhelpful. The recent surge in “auto-fiction”—which, in truth, has always been with us: people write about what they know—is dissolving the boundary a bit, but many creative paths are still unexplored, including that of conveying scientific truths with literary skill. Science, after…