Fictional streets used multiple times
Fictional streets used multiple times
I found myself wondering something, and it occurred to me that the quiz bowl enthusiasts of the world could, collectively, think up an answer. Specifically, this is the situation. I am about to teach a class in which my students will be discussing three chapters from Albert Memmi's The Pillar of Salt, which is a largely autobiographical novel in which the main character grows up on "Tarfoune Street" in Tunis. Tarfoune Street is fictional, but Memmi subsequently used it in other novels to be the home of other characters. So my question is this: can you think of other examples of fictional streets that have been used by the same author in multiple unrelated works of fiction?
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Re: Fictional streets used multiple times
I don't know whether this counts as a road or as unrelated, but Faulkner used many of the same locations in many of his novels, such as Jefferson Square, which has a few roads leading from it. Do Faulkner and Hardy count, or are their novels considered related?
Re: Fictional streets used multiple times
Sure, I suppose that does count. I guess it's all a judgment call just because, any time an author puts effort into building a world of some kind, people will inevitably say that one book is a sequel of the other or somesuch. In this case, while the street is fictional, the city of Tunis is very much real. I ask this question in the context of trying to explain to a group of the current generation of extremely literal-minded college students where this street is. They ask, inevitably, "How can you show us where this street is when it is fictional?" I suppose this is also true of, say, Yoknapatawpha County, which is also fictional, and yet I could pull it up on Google Street View and give you a pretty good sense of what it looks like today.
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Re: Fictional streets used multiple times
This feels like a very specific type of worldbuilding where the author creates a fictional world largely as a surrogate for an IRL place or some combination of them. I guess another easy example would be Harran in Cities of Salt?Kyle wrote: ↑Thu Oct 28, 2021 7:38 pm Sure, I suppose that does count. I guess it's all a judgment call just because, any time an author puts effort into building a world of some kind, people will inevitably say that one book is a sequel of the other or somesuch. In this case, while the street is fictional, the city of Tunis is very much real. I ask this question in the context of trying to explain to a group of the current generation of extremely literal-minded college students where this street is. They ask, inevitably, "How can you show us where this street is when it is fictional?" I suppose this is also true of, say, Yoknapatawpha County, which is also fictional, and yet I could pull it up on Google Street View and give you a pretty good sense of what it looks like today.
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