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Among the characters of a literary performance or fiction and viewers-readers is an imaginary wall to which some creators have referred mainly since the nineteenth century. So Stendhal in Racine and Shakespeare : ". . . The action takes place in a room where one of the walls has been erected by the magic wand of Melpómene. . . "When any of the characters interact with the expectator-readers the fourth wall is broken.