To back up this claim, when fictional novels first became a literary format in the Western world, there was immense consternation about the fact that un-true th

To back up this claim, when fictional novels first became a literary format in the Western world, there was immense consternation about the fact that un-true things were being said in text. It actually took a while for authors to start writing in anything besides formats that mimicked non-fictional writing (letters, diary entries, etc.).