NPPF - Foreword - Notes (1)

[Malignd]

<<I don't think "fantasy" is the right word, but
"fictional" is.  But they don't need to "stand for"
real places, just be (possibly) accepted as real in
the world of the novel.>>

Yes.  There's nothing in the novel that asserts
there's no Zembla; what is there re Zembla suggests or
at least leaves open that there might be.  So the
possibility remains that Kinbote is the exiled king
(rather unlikely, that); that there is a Zembla and he
imagines himself the exiled king; or that there is a
no Zembla but in Kinbote's mind.


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