ABSTRACT
Even more, the correlation between narrative activity and the temporal character of human experience “presents a transcultural form of necessity.”323 Exploring the meaning of human action in the realm of fiction transvalues ethical understandings of actions, characters, and events. Ultimately, “narratives have acting and suffering as their theme.”324 The fictive transformation of action and suffering, through the invention of stories that place everyday reality in suspense, effects the mimetic displacement of ethics to poetics. Correlatively, this mimetic displacement of praxis from the ethical to the poetic realm finds its completion in fiction’s refiguration of the practical field of our experiences.
