* " Tres versiones de Judas " ( 1944 ), a short story by Jorge Luis Borges ( from the collection Ficciones ) in which a fictional Swedish theologian claims that Judas is the real savior of mankind

It is from this unpromising background that the fictional private detective was recruited.

As a free-lance investigator, the fictional detective is responsible to no one but himself and his client.

Thus the fictional detective is much more than a simple businessman.

In short, the fictional private eye is a specialized version of Adam Smith's ideal entrepreneur, the man whose private ambitions must always and everywhere promote the public welfare.

Now time is also the concern of the fictional narrative, which is, at its simplest, the story of an action with, usually, a beginning, a middle, and an end -- elements which demand time as the first condition for their existence.

In some fictional works, the difference between a robot and android is only their appearance, with androids being made to look like humans on the outside but with robot-like internal mechanics.

Abdul Alhazred is a fictional character created by American horror writer H. P. Lovecraft.

Hercule Poirot (; ) is a fictional Belgian detective, created by Agatha Christie.

On publication of the latter, Poirot was the only fictional character to be given an obituary in the New York Times ; 6 August 1975 " Hercule Poirot is Dead ; Famed Belgian Detective ".

Jane Marple, usually referred to as Miss Marple, is a fictional character appearing in twelve of Agatha Christie's crime novels and in twenty short stories.

The Amber Diceless Roleplaying Game is a role-playing game created and written by Erick Wujcik, set in the fictional universe created by author Roger Zelazny for his Chronicles of Amber.

The Dodo is a fictional character appearing in Chapters 2 and 3 of the book Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll ( Charles Lutwidge Dodgson ).

* Patrick O ' Brian's fictional British sea captain Jack Aubrey is described as owning a " fiddle far above his station, an Amati no less ," in The Surgeon's Mate.

The term " fictional autobiography " has been coined to define novels about a fictional character written as though the character were writing their own biography, of which Daniel Defoe's Moll Flanders, is an early example.

Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye is a well-known modern example of fictional autobiography.

Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre is yet another example of fictional autobiography, as noted on the front page of the original version.

Edited, with an Afterword, by Sharrar, Avery Hopwood's The Great Bordello, a Story of the Theatre, is a roman à clef that tells the story of Edwin Endsleigh — Hopwood ’ s fictional counterpart — who graduates from the University of Michigan and heads for Broadway to earn his fortune and the security to pursue his one true dream of writing the great American novel.

" In the same article, the Reverend Al Sharpton ( whose fictional analogue in the novel is " Reverend Bacon ") asserts that " twenty years later, the cynicism of The Bonfire of the Vanities is as out of style as Tom Wolfe's wardrobe.

Big Brother is a fictional character in George Orwell's novel Nineteen Eighty-Four.

Andy Medhurst wrote in his 1991 essay " Batman, Deviance, and Camp " that Batman is interesting to gay audiences because " he was one of the first fictional characters to be attacked on the grounds of his presumed homosexuality ," " the 1960s TV series remains a touchstone of camp ," and " merits analysis as a notably successful construction of masculinity.

Obviously as a fictional character he ’ s intended to be heterosexual, but the basis of the whole concept is utterly gay.

In the fictional world of Ghosts of Albion, Queen Bodicea is one of three Ghosts who once were mystical protectors of Albion and assists the current protectors with advice and knowledge.

Real, legendary, and fictional episodes from the Reconquista are the subject of much of medieval Galician-Portuguese literature, Spanish literature, and Catalan literature, such as the cantar de gesta.

* In the United States and United Kingdom, planned television screenings of films and fictional programs where terror, plane crashes, bombs or other related disaster were the primary subject were postponed or canceled.

Werewolves are a frequent subject of modern fiction, although fictional werewolves have been attributed traits distinct from those of original folklore.

The spy film genre, which is mainly the subgenre of thriller and action, deals with the subject of fictional espionage, either in a realistic way ( such as the adaptations of John Le Carré ) or as a basis for fantasy ( such as James Bond ).

The subgenre deals with the subject of fictional espionage, either in a realistic way ( such as the adaptations of John Le Carré ) or as a basis for fantasy ( such as James Bond ).

She also is the subject of a fictional biography, " The Royal Tigress " by a fictional character, David Powlett-Jones who is the main subject of To Serve Them All My Days, R. F.

The cathedral is also the subject of William Golding's novel The Spire which deals with the fictional Dean Jocelin who makes the building of the spire his life's work.

Snicket is the subject of a fictional autobiography, Lemony Snicket: The Unauthorized Autobiography ( which contains an introduction from a fictionalized version of Daniel Handler ).

The relationship between Crates and Hipparchia became the subject of a number of fictional accounts, such as the play Spozalizio d ' Ipparchia filosofa, wrote by Italian nun Clemenza Ninci in the 17th century, or Christoph Martin Wieland's novel Krates und Hipparchia ( 1804 ).

The subject is most commonly addressed in reference to fictional universes that differ markedly from reality, such as those that introduce entire fictional cities, countries, or even planets, or those that contradict commonly known facts about the world and its history, or those that feature fantasy or science fiction concepts such as magic or faster than light travel — and especially those in which the deliberate development of the setting is a substantial focus of the work.

* Henry Christophe inspired Eugene O ' Neill's fictional character The Emperor Jones, the subject of his play by the same name.

By extension, the word has also been used to mean any sort of recurring theme, ( whether or not subject to developmental transformation ) in music, literature, or ( metaphorically ) the life of a fictional character or a real person.

The Newcomers was a late 1960s BBC soap opera which dealt with the subject of a London family, the Coopers, who moved to a housing estate in the fictional country town of Angleton.

One of Knox's most famous works, though currently out of print, Taking as its subject the history of Oxford from the Reformation to shortly before World War II, it traces the disintegration of a common culture though the conversations of the dons of Simon Magus, a fictional college, first in 1588, and then by fifty year intervals until 1938.

This subject should not be confused with deliberately fictional Bible conspiracy theories.

The subgenre usually deals with the subject of fictional espionage in a realistic way ( such as the adaptations of John Le Carré ).

* Anastasia of the Siberian Taiga, subject of the fictional book series The Ringing Cedars

St Trinian's is a fictional girls ' boarding school, the creation of English cartoonist Ronald Searle, that later became the subject of a popular series of comedy films.

He has been the subject of four notable biographies: the first, Man o ' War, by Page Cooper and Roger Treat, was published in 1950, and is a classic of its kind ; Walter Farley, author of The Black Stallion series, also wrote a slightly fictional biography of Man o ' War ; in 2000, Bowen, Edward L. wrote a biography called Man o ' War: Thoroughbred Legends from Eclipse Press ; and in 2006, Dorothy Ours wrote a new, extensively sourced biography entitled Man o ' War: A Legend Like Lightning.

Iorga was also identified as the subject of fictional portrayals in a modernist novel by N. D. Cocea and ( against the author's disclaimer ) in George Ciprian's play The Drake's Head.

Regardless of whether don Juan is a fictional character, or an actual human subject of study in Castaneda's books, Juan tells Carlos ( the personage representing Castaneda ) that he is a brujo ( Spanish for sorcerer or medicine man ); a sort of healer, sorcerer or shaman, who had inherited ( presumably through a lineage of teachers ) an ancient Mesoamerican practice for vastly enhancing one's awareness of, and interaction with, the energies of the Earth and its assorted beings.