ANTONIO SHINEBOURNE
Fiction insists on a complication.
I wrote ‘The Reader Wants Drama, Please’ in an attempt to encourage the reader to acknowledge their own “dark passenger”, the self devoid of altruism, an aspect of what Freud termed the Id, the unconscious site of primal desires. Throughout the story metafiction is used extensively. I employ direct address in which the reader becomes one of the students in the lecture; the explicit references to literature, and the blurring between fiction and reality in the lecturer’s story, expose how all narratives of power in society (including the authority invested in a teacher) are a kind of fiction, a mythology created in order to maintain authority.
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