There are always some differences between what one imagines and another

one tries to imagine based on the former's mental image. These

differences, however, should be negligible when efficiency depends on

exact correspondence. But when there are no practical consequences of

the (in)exactness, that is, when psychological processes do not direct

everyday behaviour, the imagination works more or less freely, as

happens when receiving a narrative literary work. The narrative

procedures together with fiction develop in the most various ways,

although literariness does not go together with this pair

automatically.The receiver constructs mental representations about them

relying upon the information coming from the work and from his/her naive

psychology. His/her imagination is challenged by the transformative

operations and the empty places in the work. Some variables of

imagination are studied depending on the complexity of fictionality with

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