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- Dictionarymetafiction/ˈmɛtəˌfɪkʃn/
noun
- 1. fiction in which the author self-consciously alludes to the artificiality or literariness of a work by parodying or departing from novelistic conventions and traditional narrative techniques: "the followers of Borges had retreated into airless metafiction"
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3 seconds ago · You see, Lanark is a glorious, grim, complex novel that blends, to quote the critic David Pringle, "not only autobiographical realism, but low comedy, afterlife fantasy, scattershot satire, nightmarish allegory, self-referential metafiction, tender eroticism, lunatic scholarship and profuse literary borrowings."
3 seconds ago · "I have a passion for teaching kids to become readers, to become comfortable with a book, not daunted. Books shouldn’t be daunting, they should be funny, exciting and wonderful" - Roald Dahl
