Are fictional worlds really possible? A short contribution to their semantics

Undoubtedly it would be useless to once again mention the fact that fictional worlds of modern literary theory have been primarily inspired by possible worlds of modern logic; on the other hand, there have been many studies and analyses on the topic of the difference between the possible worlds used in modern logic and the fictional worlds used in modern literary semantics. In general, fictional worlds differ from possible worlds in many ways and on many levels, and the difference between the two types of worlds has already been successfully explained by a number of theoreticians. Rather than repeating all aspects of these differences, I stress the basic, mainly epistemological distinctions and display the crucial semantic consequences of the mutual incompatibilty of possible and fictional worlds.