Need poetic Milady It is true that we usually judge the world in a narrative from our world of reference and that we are rarely the reverse. But then what does say with Aristotle (Poetics, 1451b and 1542A) that poetry is more philosophical than history because in poetry things happen necessarily in history while they accidentally happen? That means recognizing, reading a novel, that what happens there is more "real" than what happens in real life? That means that the Napoleon shot by Peter Besuchov is truer than the one who died at St. Helena, the characters of a work of art are more "typical" and "universal" than their actual prototypes, more effective and more likely? It seems that the drama of Athos, which can never be abolished in no possible world, meeting with Milady, is a witness of truth and greatness of the work of art, beyond any metaphor, by force of structural matrices of worlds, which we glimpse what it means to "poetic necessity."
Umberto Eco, Lector in Fabula
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