![]() ![]() Rose becomes determined to diagnose Parry's behaviour, and concludes that he suffers from a homoerotic manifestation of De Clérambault's Syndrome. ![]() Published 1997, Ian McEwan's novel Enduring Love tells the story of a science journalist, Joe Rose, who is stalked by a religious loner, Jed Parry. In fiction that doesn't claim to be fantasy, we wouldn't expect to discover that an included case study report, and the purportedly respected journal it is taken from, are really works of fiction. We assume other works of fiction don't require quite the same suspension of disbelief, that the author wouldn't lie to us about the basic rules of their story's setting. ![]() When reading fantasy and science fiction, we expect to be hood winked on a greater scale, suspending our disbelief in the face of worlds that operate under different rules, often with altered physics, chemistry and biology. When reading fiction, the reader prepares to experience a product of the author's imagination, including characters, encounters and locations that do no exist. ![]()
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