metafictional

English

Etymology

meta- + fictional

Adjective

metafictional (not comparable)

  1. Of, relating to, or being metafiction.
    • 2024 May 1, Lisa Allardice, “Brooklyn’s bard: Paul Auster’s tricksy fiction captivated a generation”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
      Full of sly jokes, riddles and metafictional high-jinks, his work had the voltage of a thriller (offering a rare voice of disapproval, the New Yorker critic James Wood accused his works of pedalling a “B-movie atmosphere”).

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