ABSTRACT
Gilles Deleuze is one of those thinkers of whom it is impossible, even today, at the start of the 21st century, to say whether his effusions are quite simply nonsense or rather non-sense. The similarity between the two areas of a Christian religion on the one hand, and a technical medium of mass entertainment on the other, obtrudes from both directions. In philosophical terms "the link between man and the world is broken", then, at least since the mid-17th century and Descartes's introduction of a dualistic ontology. The starting point for an understanding of fiction is its semantic relationship to the significant Greek concepts of poiesis and mimesis. From the outset, this concept of poiesis correlates with that of mimesis, but it is a correlation which also entails restriction, in order to exclude an element from fiction which is otherwise difficult to extract from it-namely, deception and deceit.
