Crossing the borders of fiction. Do non-existent objects have bodies?
Résumé
This paper is focused on travels from one world to another: from a fictional-
world-in-a fictional-world to a real-world-in-a-fictional-world, in a historical
and theoretical perspective, from Jacques Alluis’ Ecole d’amour ou les Héros docteurs
(1665) to Haruki Murakami’s End of the World (1985). In these works, fictional
characters overstep the limits between worlds and meet, and sometimes love ontologically
different characters. What is at stake in these metalepsis is the concept of
fiction and the difference between fiction and non-fiction? Questioning the body of
non-existent objects in these transfictional frames help us scrutinize their status.