List of metafictional texts
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Metafiction is a kind of fiction which contains references to the fiction writing process, for example an author including his notes as part of the work. This is a partial list of works using various metafictional ideas.
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[edit] Novels, novellas and short stories
- Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
- Richard Adams, The Plague Dogs
- Rabih Alameddine, I, the Divine
- Felipe Alfau, Locos: A Comedy of Gestures
- Robert Altman, The Player
- Martin Amis, Money, London Fields, Time's Arrow, The Information
- Isaac Asimov, Murder at the ABA
- Paul Auster, City of Glass
- Nicholson Baker, The Mezzanine
- John Barnes, One for the Morning Glory
- John Barnes, Gaudeamus
- Julian Barnes, Flaubert's Parrot
- John Barth, Chimera, Coming Soon!!!, The Floating Opera, Lost in the Funhouse among others
- Samuel Beckett, Watt
- Thomas Bernhard, Wittgensteins Neffe
- Jorge Luis Borges, "The Garden of Forking Paths", "Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius"
- William S. Burroughs, Junkie, Naked Lunch, Queer
- Michel Butor, La Modification
- Richard Brautigan, Sombrero Fallout
- A. S. Byatt, Possession: A Romance
- Guillermo Cabrera Infante, Tres tristes tigres
- Italo Calvino, If On a Winter's Night a Traveler
- Peter Carey, Illywhacker
- Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quixote
- J. M. Coetzee, Slow Man
- Brendan Connell, Dr. Black and the Guerrillia
- Douglas Cooper, Amnesia, Delirium
- Julio Cortazar, Rayuela, Hopscotch
- Douglas Coupland, jPod
- John Crowley, Little, Big, "Novelty"
- Mark Z. Danielewski, House of Leaves
- Peter David, Young Justice, Sir Apropos of Nothing
- Samuel R. Delany, The Einstein Intersection, Dhalgren, Return to Nevèrÿon (series)
- Philip K. Dick, VALIS, The Man in the High Castle
- Joan Didion, Democracy
- Umberto Eco, Foucault's Pendulum
- Dave Eggers, A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
- Bret Easton Ellis, Lunar Park
- Gilad Elbom, Scream Queens of the Dead Sea
- Michael Ende, The Neverending Story
- Steve Erickson, "Arc d'X", "The Sea Came in at Midnight"
- Raymond Federman, Twofold Vibration, Smiles on Washington Square, Take It Or Leave It
- F. Scott Fitzgerald, "The Great Gatsby"
- Jasper Fforde, The Eyre Affair, Lost in a Good Book, The Well of Lost Plots, Something Rotten, The Big Over Easy, The Fourth Bear
- Henry Fielding, The History of the Adventures of Joseph Andrews, and of his Friend Mr Abraham Adams
- Ian Fleming, You Only Live Twice
- John Fowles, The French Lieutenant's Woman
- Jonathan Safran Foer, Everything Is Illuminated
- Jostein Gaarder, Sophie's World
- Alex Garland, The Beach
- William H. Gass, The Tunnel
- Andre Gide, The Counterfeiters
- William Goldman, The Princess Bride
- Alasdair Gray, Lanark
- Robert Grudin, Book
- Larry Heinemann, Paco's Story
- Robert A. Heinlein, The Number of the Beast and Glory Road, at least.
- Douglas Hofstadter, dialogues in Gödel, Escher, Bach
- John Irving, The World According to Garp
- Stephen King, The Dark Tower, Misery, The Dark Half, Bag of Bones
- Milan Kundera, "The Book of Laughter and Forgetting"
- Doris Lessing, The Golden Notebook
- Penelope Lively, Moon Tiger
- David Lodge (author), Therapy
- Steve Lyons, Doctor Who Virgin New Adventures:Conundrum
- Barry N. Malzberg, Galaxies, Herovit's World
- Yann Martell, Life of Pi
- Ian McEwan, Atonement
- Walter Moers, Die 13½ Leben des Käpt'n Blaubär, Ensel und Kretel, Die Stadt der Träumenden Bücher
- Michael Moorcock, The Second Ether sequence (Blood, Fabulous Harbours & The War Amongst The Angels)
- Vladimir Nabokov, Pale Fire, Lolita, The Gift, Speak, Memory
- Flann O'Brien, At Swim-Two-Birds
- Tim O'Brien, The Things They Carried
- Michael Ondaatje, Running in the Family
- Juan Carlos Onetti, El Pozo
- Chuck Palahniuk, "Fight Club" "Diary", "Haunted"
- Kenneth Patchen, The Journal of Albion Moonlight
- Milorad Pavic's novels.
- Daniel Pellizzari, Dedo Negro Com Unha
- Arturo Perez-Reverte, The Club Dumas
- Salvador Plascencia, The People of Paper
- Terry Pratchett, several of the Discworld books
- Robert Rankin's novels
- Riverbend, Baghdad Burning: Girl Blog from Iraq
- Alain Robbe-Grillet, La Jalousie, La maison de rendez-vous
- Douglas Rushkoff, Exit Strategy
- José Carlos Somoza, The Athenian Murders
- José Saramago, Ensaio sobre a Cegueira, A Caverna, O Homem Duplicado
- Robert Sheckley, Options
- Iain Sinclair, Landor's Tower
- Dan Sleigh, Islands
- Lemony Snicket (Daniel Handler), A Series of Unfortunate Events (13 book series)
- Gilbert Sorrentino, Mulligan Stew
- Laurence Sterne, Tristram Shandy
- Jonathan Stroud, The Bartimaeus Trilogy
- Aritha van Herk, Restlessness
- Jeff Vandermeer, City of Saints and Madmen
- Kurt Vonnegut, Breakfast of Champions, Slaughterhouse-Five, Bluebeard (indeed, almost all of Vonnegut's middle and later period novels use this technique; see his entry for more details)
- David Foster Wallace, Brief Interviews with Hideous Men
- Colin Wilson, The Personality Surgeon
- Robert Anton Wilson and Robert Shea, The Illuminatus! Trilogy
- Jeanette Winterson, Sexing the Cherry
- Jeanette Winterson, The Powerbook
- Gene Wolfe, The Fifth Head of Cerberus
- Virginia Woolf, Orlando: A Biography
- Ronald Wright, A Scientific Romance
- J. R. R. Tolkien, Leaf by Niggle
- Haruki Murakami, Kafka By The Shore
- Miguel de Unamuno, Niebla
- Scott O. Moore, Lullabye for Thunderstorms
- Roderick Townley, The Great Good Thing
[edit] Animated short films
- Chuck Jones, Duck Amuck, (1953) and (Rabbit Rampage), 1955.
[edit] Stage plays
- Samuel Beckett, Endgame
- Joseph Heller, We Bombed in New Haven
- Arthur L. Kopit, End of the World With Symposium to Follow
- Ira Levin, Deathtrap (play)
- Dimitris Lyacos, Nyctivoe
- Steve Martin, Picasso at the Lapin Agile
- Luigi Pirandello, Six Characters in Search of an Author
- William Shakespeare, Hamlet and most of his other plays.
- Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead
- Peter Weiss, Marat/Sade (The Persecution and Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat As Performed by the Inmates of the Asylum of Charenton Under the Direction of The Marquis de Sade)
- Thornton Wilder, The Skin of Our Teeth
- Doug Wright, I Am My Own Wife
[edit] Films
- David Cronenberg, screenplay for eXistenZ and Naked Lunch
- David Fincher, Fight Club
- Peter Greenaway's The Baby of Mâcon
- Charlie Kaufman, screenplay for Adaptation.
- Baz Luhrmann and Craig Pearce, screenplay for Moulin Rouge!
- George Nolfi, screenplay for Ocean's Twelve
- Zak Penn, Adam Leff, Shane Black and David Arnott, screenplay for Last Action Hero
- Robert Pulcini and Shari Springer Berman, screenplay for American Splendor
- The film 24 Hour Party People
- A Cock and Bull Story, film adaptation of Tristram Shandy
- Some of Wyllis Cooper's Quiet, Please scripts
- Keith Allen and Peter Richardson's Comic Strip film Detectives on the Edge of a Nervous Breakdown
- Stranger than Fiction
- Mel Brooks' Spaceballs: the Movie
[edit] Television shows
[edit] Comic strips, comic books and graphic novels
- Berke Breathed, Bloom County
- Penny Arcade frequently features metafiction, particularly their fantasy setting Epic Legends of the Hierarchs: The Elemenstor Saga, which has a detailed wiki devoted to it.
- John Byrne's run on The Sensational She-Hulk and Dan Slott's run on She-Hulk.
- Grant Morrison's run on Animal Man
- Dave Sim, chapters "Minds" and "Guys" from his six thousand pages graphic novel
- The characters Deadpool and Purple Man are both aware they are in a comic book.
- Triangle and Robert is heavily metafictional.
- Alan Moore's Promethea and Supreme
- The Order of the Stick by Rich Burlew
- There have also been suggestions that DC Comics' character the Joker may in fact be a metafictional character, suggested by moments when the Joker "breaks the fourth wall" and addresses (or seems to address) the reader audience. This is further heightened in the cartoon adaptations in which the Joker (voiced by Mark Hamill) speaks and refers to the audience when no one else is around. (However, this may be due to the character's insanity)
- Kristofer Straub's Checkerboard Nightmare, portrayed as the workplace of several professional webcomic actors and marketers
[edit] Artist's Books
- Space Opera: the artist's book by Michael J. Weller
