The traditional view regards literary reception as the reader's restoration of the textual meaning or the impact of the text on the reader,which reduces the complexity and reality of the reception activity.From the perspective of event theory,reception occurs as an encounter between text and readers.The mock reader and the open text are the preconditions for the event of reception.Reception as an event reveals the other in the same self of the recipient,creating a new self while generating another path to reality.The recipient returns to the past when reality was created,destabilising the foundation and certainty of reality,resetting the relationship between fiction and reality,and creating new objects and ways of perception.Reception as an event reveals the non-repeatability and irreducibility of the production of meaning,releasing the contingency,impossibility,and unreality of reception,and thus leading to a non-deterministic view of literary reception.