The Metafictiona World of Orsai

Elika Ortega Cultureplex Lab University of Western Ontario Feb 3, 2012 The metafictional world of Orsai *

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What is metafiction? ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

An ontological question Metafiction plays with the seemingly obvious (Platonist, Realist) divide between reality and fiction Fiction might not be “true” but it is “real”, as it is created in the “true” world Metafiction problematizes the representation of experience as histories/stories narrated through the same means: language.

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“ Otherworldly elements” ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],“ For metafictional writers the most fundamental assumption is that composing a novel is basically no different from composing or constructing one’s ‘reality’” (Patricia Waugh 24)

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