Metafiction is fiction about fiction. In particular in post-modern literature, authors show a playful attitude toward narratorial conventions and forms, thus undermining our sense of “reality” in fiction and also questioning the time-honoured aspects of the novel, such as timeline, narrator, action, place etc. We will discuss the following (in this order, so please, start reading Fowles!):
John Fowles, The French Lieutenant’s Woman. (1969)
Salman Rushdie, Haroon and the Sea of Stories. (1990)
Ian McEwan, “Reflections of a Kept Ape” and “Dead As They Come”,
from: In Between the Sheets. (1978)
Ian McEwan, Sweet Tooth. (2012) |
