THE POSSIBLE WORLD AS A METAPHOR OF FICTIONAL EXISTENCE
THE POSSIBLE WORLD AS A METAPHOR OF FICTIONAL EXISTENCE

Summary/Abstract: Inspired by Leibniz’s philosophy and developed by the representatives of the analytic school, the concept of possible world was redefined and adapted to narrative texts. Considered a mental construct, the fictional world, re-created in the process of reading, becomes the actual world of the textual universe. Based on the reader’s subjective experience, the possible world embodies all the alternative possibilities of the fictional existence. The study attempts to examine the artistic representation of the possible world as a metaphor for the fictional reality generated by a literary text and reflected in the art of painting.

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