Fiction and metafiction as it relates to Cervantes Don Quixote and Borges Ficciones.

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Fiction and Metafiction in Borge 's Ficciones and Cervantes ' Don Quixote dela Mancha

Unbelievable and amazing may perhaps best describe the literature that the world has as of the moment . It is unbelievable because who would have thought that the wide spectrum of literary works would be so great in number ? At the same time , it is amazing as the progress and history which literature has gone through are truly marvelous

The literary works which are within humanity 's reach are incomparable to

what people back then had . The literary works of the moment which are within humanity 's reach is a compilation of history , art , language , the sciences , and politics of every generation , culture , and nation . Truly literature has such a monumental scope within its pages that sometimes a person may be lost with so many things literature has to offer

Literature is both fact and fiction and is inspired both by history and creative imagination . The elements within literature are all reflections of the realities of society , but these things can still be considered as fictional - after all , fact is fact and pure truth - nothing more

But what if something fictional seems so real that it seems to be factual and true ? What if a person or a character which is just imagined seems to be a real person of this world ? What if the line between reality and imagined is confusing and seems to be separated by nothing at all ? Two authors...