Fiction Is Always Possible

Franz Kafka’s drawings.

Where autofiction’s original intention was to destabilize the orders of truth and fiction by introducing each into the other, its later iterations (especially via alt-lit) have adhered to facticity out of a belief that fiction is no longer possible, and hardly worth the effort even if it were.

The volcano set of You Only Live Twice cost more than the entire budget of Dr. No and every single lamp available in Pinewood Studios was used to light the set.