Abstrakt
"Illusion, Distance and Appropriation" is a cognitive study regarding perception of utterances (in general) and literary texts (in particular). The author focuses on illusion as it, according to him, accompanies the understanding of any utterance: utterance always projects a putative fact and thus requires an engagement of the imagination.
Subsequently, two types of perception of utterances are distinguished: in the first case, the recipients are interested only in the putative fact itself (such an interest is always non-thematic); in the second case, the recipients have an interest in the fact as well as its background (such an interest is thematic). It is the second type that is, according to the author, typical of literary or imaginative reading.