Download or read book Embracing Illusion written by Francisca Cho Bantly and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1996-07-03 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Embracing Illusion is an interdisciplinary study of a classic Korean novel. It argues that a work of narrative fiction can be taken seriously as Buddhist philosophical discourse. The capacity of fiction to speak on behalf of Buddhist truths is set in the larger context of how the literary imagination approaches the exploration of reality.