The general view of historians and critics is that the legend is a German literary invention of the early 19th century.

To guarantee freedom of opinion and expression, in addition to artistic and literary invention.

Sedir was by no means an imaginative fiction writer, who fed his readers on his own literary inventions.

It was by all odds my most famous literary invention, quoted in season and out by others.

I was one of the Maestro's characters, a literary invention.

He is likely a literary invention.

What they write is more heartbreaking than any literary invention.

They are forgeries of literary inventions.

These are literary inventions, exuberantly taken up by filmmakers.

I think it is a pertinent one, actually; for I don't think literary invention, or fancy, is mixed up in all this by accident.