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Fiction About Fiction
Meta-fiction is commentary about fiction in a novel, like when the author makes a point using another work of fiction or when the author uses fiction as an example.
Meta-fiction or meta-narrative is a literary technique or device used in Flight to Canada, The Awakening, and “Octet”. ...
Ishmael Reed makes many references to past works of fiction in his strange slave novel Flight to Canada. A novel about a runaway slave who finally earns his freedom and gets his land in Canada, he almost throws out the books of history that Americans all know, and he’s also thrown out the beliefs that many Americans have towards some of their great political figures. ... Reed also makes many comments about Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin, saying that she was not the author and that she stole it from a man named Josiah Henson. ...
“Octet” by David Foster Wallace is an almost parody of fiction in that it’s fiction in it’s basic components with many stories that have almost nothing to do with each other.
Approximate Word count = 913
Approximate Pages = 3.7
(250 words per page double spaced)
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