SOURCE: “Playing a Game of Ontology: A Postmodern Reading of The Futurological Congress,” in Extrapolation, Vol. 33, No. 1, Spring, 1992, pp. 32–40.
In the following essay, Swirski examines the interpenetration of reality and illusion in The Futurological Congress and argues that the narrative's self-reflexive structure is not an autonomous framework, but integral to the novel itself.
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