ABSTRACT
This chapter moves to fiction from poetry, both sharing in poetics and rhetoric, the epic related to lyric and the novel, which also grows out of romance. In translating possible worlds into fictional worlds, contemporary novelists continue these long-standing techniques of engaging the reader or audience in aesthetic and ethical fields and dilemmas. Roth's medium and context differ from those of Sophocles and Shakespeare, so that the ethics of his novel involves a certain time and a changing environment. The ethics of reading and of writing are also aesthetic choices make even in diction, narrative, point of view, and related aspects of non-fiction and fictions like poetry, drama and novels. The mode of narrative is one of the main aspects of the ethics of reading, what Roth wishes to convey to the reader to allow him or her space for considering ethical matters through the aesthetic dimension of generic codes and the ways of language.
