Is Fiction Communication?

from An Infinite Language · host Adam Tramantano

This is an exploration of the parameters of the question, the mapping of where we can go. Yes, no, maybe: is fiction a kind of communication? All three possibilities are explored. The subconscious finger-wagging, let’s avoid. None of the fictional worlds would have existed had the original writer not created those potentialities to carry on in that way… as if you are, as a writer, inventing instruments of imagination. Is that communication? Do we overburden the concept by making it work with one approach? The construction of imaginative instruments and parameters… is that what fiction writing is? A stage for the performance of the imagination. Allowing readers to construct in their imagination because reading is, after all, a creative act. Non simultaneous communication What the creator cannot see: the reaction And the reactor does not impact the directionality of the creation In fiction writing