For, fiction, speaking in the vernacular of freedom, has the ability, by revealing what we “threaten to become,” to transform the stories that govern our world. In Doctorow ‘s view, only literature can offer us a way out of the tyranny of this rationality. Doctorow, there is no genuine difference between fact and fiction: “there is only narrative.” He believes that “the regime of facts,” the epistemological dominant of the world we live in, “derives its strength from what we are supposed to be.” In this sense, our microcosm does not merely revolve around the scientific dogma of its own infallibility, but the ruling scientific discourse defines us in our very beings and demarcates our agentic horizons. His MA dissertation by using Patricia Waugh’s definition of historiographic metafiction read Thomas Pynchon’s Gravity’s Rainbow and Against the Day as fiction that is not only conscious of its constructed nature but which aims to uncover the fictionality of our own world. In 2018 he obtained an MA degree in English Literature from the University of Bristol. His research interests are related to postmodernist and contemporary US fiction. Gergely Vörös is a postgraduate student at Comenius University in Bratislava. " Ragtime as “False Document”: Narratives and a Constructed world in E.
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