Collected Fictions: publisher excerpt

Stories that examine memory, authorship, infinity and imagined systems of knowledge. Track the narrator’s evidence and the status of invented references.

How to study this source

• How can a fictional reference change what a narrator seems to know?

  corePublisher’s Look Inside excerpt from Collected Fictions; read the opening story available in the sample. This sample is not the whole Fictions collection.

  Stories that examine memory, authorship, infinity and imagined systems of knowledge. Track the narrator’s evidence and the status of invented references.

Ideas and questions

Read background definitions when a term blocks the argument. Then return to the source and reconstruct its claim in your own words.

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