Fiction Entities as <i>Ersatzes</i> on the Edge of Picture Theory

Analytic philosophers, whose concern has been the core areas of philosophy, logic, ontology, epistemology, and philosophy of language, have merely contributed to literary studies by providing their theories with examples drawn from literature. The growing interest in literature in the analytic tradition has often transposed their engagement with the questions about language and its related extents such as meaning, truth, and reference. Ludwig Wittgenstein, among others, has explored the reference to fiction names, which is the point of departure of such an attempt. That said, this unassuming paper seeks to unearth the bearings of Ludwig Wittgenstein‘s Trcacturain’s conception of language on literary criticism. Thereby, this article takes the tack towards the context principle Wittgenstein endorsed from Frege as the intersection thesis between picture theory and critical construal of fiction entities. With this premise, the researchers probe the analogy between the aesthetic and the philosophical logical by spilling the beams on the dialogue between Wittgenstein’s Tractatus Logico-philosophicus and the ontology of fiction entities. The detailed pictorial analysis of statements of fiction, extracted from the novel the Sympathiser authored by Viet Thanh Nguyen, culminated in Wittgenstein’s picture theory as an apposite lens of construing literary works. The paper's inclusive outcomes are amalgamated in the fact that the sub-conceptions of Wittgenstein ‘picture theory do not fail to either silence the opponents of picture theory’s felicitousness to interpreting literary works or marginalise the aesthetic and cognitive value of literature.