What are you reading in 2025?

[Retros_x]

For non-fiction, I'm reading the Odyssey right now. For at least one definition of non-fiction.

I am very curious to read THAT definition of non-fiction, because I never heard of the Odyssey being refered as non-fiction and I am curious how such definition would describe interactions with gods, witches and mythical beasts not as fictional.

Will someone call LOTR in 2000 years non-fiction?

 

[overgeeked]

I am very curious to read THAT definition of non-fiction, because I never heard of the Odyssey being refered as non-fiction and I am curious how such definition would describe interactions with gods, witches and mythical beasts not as fictional.

Will someone call LOTR in 2000 years non-fiction?

Without getting into banned topics, it's likely the religious exception. The people who follow a given religion don't generally appreciate their religious texts being called fiction. And yes, there are still people in the world who worship the Greek gods.

 

[Retros_x]

Without getting into banned topics, it's likely the religious exception. The people who follow a given religion don't generally appreciate their religious texts being called fiction. And yes, there are still people in the world who worship the Greek gods.

Ok the greek gods are one thing, if some people still believe in them, but I never saw anyone refer to Homers Odyseey as a Holy Scripture. He was not a prophet, but a poet and just wrote down an epic about famous oral tradition story.

But even if, I never saw someone refer to any other Holy Scriptures as non-fiction genre.

 

[Desdichado]

It's non fiction in the sense that fiction as we know it hadn't been invented yet. It's really not in the same category at all as a novel.

Also, I don't know when the last time is that you were in a physical library with physical books, but mythology is never filed with fiction. I assure you, The Odyssey as non fiction isn't a crazy, it's the null hypothesis. If you want to call it fiction, you've got to make a case that everybody else in society is wrong.

 

[Alzrius]

Without getting into banned topics, it's likely the religious exception.

My understanding is that mythology, as a classification of literature, is considered to be nonfiction in the sense that it's part of cultural studies.