PRAWDA W DZIELE LITERACKIM Z PERSPEKTYWY GENOLOGICZNEJ

Abstract

The subject of the following article is the concept of truth understood not as
an absolute or a scientific fact but the truth in the context of fictional literary world.
For the purpose of these deliberations, I selected theory of fiction, originating from
Aristotle and currently developed by Thomas Pavel. Information contained in a work
of literature is true if is not undermined on any level, independently from the fact
that truth refers only to characters existing in the given possible fictional world.
Truth defined as an amalgamation of irrefutable story facts is a constitutive attribute
of the world which is characteristic for drama and epic, whereby the latter is not the
sole requirement since it has to be supported by an individual and objective account
of the narrator. Truth is thus a foundation of every work of literature based on principles
of drama and epic, however, in the fictional world of lyric poetry everything
can be undermined.