"fiction = lies" is not only wrong, it's barbaric.
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Ask Tolstoy
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I'm afraid I'm not sure what the reference is here, and a quick search doesn't turn up anything relevant.
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as I recall, Tolstoy stopped writing fiction because he said he wanted to stop lying to readers
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it's possible I'm misremembering, but in any case fiction is literally made up
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in any case, literature, as something beautiful, is civilising and uplifting.
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it's also didactic, as it functions as a synthetic history or second-hand experiential knowledge, and promotes the author's values.
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I think the results of promoting the authors' values have turned out very bad overall
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