I'd say it's a major departure as it's not just a work of fiction.

我觉得这是一个重大转变，因为它不仅仅是一部小说。

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For many years it was listed by Guinness as the bestselling work of fiction ever.

它多年一直作为有史以来最畅销的小说作品被列入吉尼斯世界纪录。

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In public, Facebook says that the film is a sign of the impact the network has had, even though it is a work of fiction.

在台面上，Facebook宣称这部电影表现了网络产生的影响力，尽管它是一部虚构的作品。

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He is exclusively concerned with fiction and how we read fiction, how we come to understand fiction, and how we determine the meaning of a work of fiction.

他只关注文学，以及我们怎样读文学，怎样来理解文学，怎样确定一部文学作品的意义。

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So these are forms of the experience of reading fiction of which Iser disapproves because there's no work being done.

这就是那些阅读小说经历的形式,伊瑟尔不赞同这种形式，因为这种阅读没有任何成就。

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What is culinary in one generation for example, the devices of crime fiction prior to the work of Dostoyevsky, become absolutely central.

一代人的口味,比如说，陀思妥耶夫斯基前,犯罪小说中常用的表现手法，曾经是绝对主流。

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If Marwa's story were a work of fiction, it would probably end somewhere about here.

BBC: Marwa's story: 10 years since the bomb fell

He began to work out the implications of this notion in a brief work of fiction.

NEWYORKER: The Clockwork Condition

An inky-fingered drama about a dying industry that makes for an unusually successful work of fiction.

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