Metafiction

Stories in this genre are acutely aware of their own existence as stories, pulling back the curtain to reveal the machinery of narrative itself — the author's hand, the reader's role, and the slippery nature of truth. Here you'll find books that blur the line between reality and invention, where characters question their own fictionality and novels fold in on themselves like mirrors facing mirrors.

Metafiction Саммари книг

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead

— Tom Stoppard • 1967

Two bit players wander into Hamlet and can't escape: the script already says they die.

4.04

93 000+

🎭 Absurdist Tragicomedy 🎪 Metatheatrical Play 😰 Existential Anxiety 🧩 Powerless Protagonists 🏰 Shakespeare Reimagined

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead

Two bit players wander into Hamlet and can't escape: the script already says they die.

— Tom Stoppard 1967 126 стр.

4.04

93 000+ оценок

🎭 Absurdist Tragicomedy 🎪 Metatheatrical Play 😰 Existential Anxiety 🧩 Powerless Protagonists 🏰 Shakespeare Reimagined

Plowing the Dark

— Richard Powers • 2000

One artist, one hostage, two rooms: a novel about the stories we tell to survive.

3.65

1 000+

🖥️ Virtual Reality 🔀 Parallel Narratives 🎨 Art And Technology 🔒 Captivity Narrative 💭 Imagination As Survival

Plowing the Dark

One artist, one hostage, two rooms: a novel about the stories we tell to survive.

— Richard Powers 2000 415 стр.

3.65

1 000+ оценок

🖥️ Virtual Reality 🔀 Parallel Narratives 🎨 Art And Technology 🔒 Captivity Narrative 💭 Imagination As Survival

A Confederate General from Big Sur

— Richard Brautigan • 1964

A self-styled Confederate general drags a friend to Big Sur, chasing a ghost that never was.

3.99

4 000+

🃏 Postmodern Picaresque 🚬 Bohemian Drifters 🎭 Self-Made Mythologies 🥀 Sardonic Humor 😮‍💨 Comic Despair

A Confederate General from Big Sur

A self-styled Confederate general drags a friend to Big Sur, chasing a ghost that never was.

— Richard Brautigan 1964 161 стр.

3.99

4 000+ оценок

🃏 Postmodern Picaresque 🚬 Bohemian Drifters 🎭 Self-Made Mythologies 🥀 Sardonic Humor 😮‍💨 Comic Despair

GPS

— Lucie Rico • 2022

After her best friend vanishes, a woman obsessively tracks the GPS dot still moving on her phone.

3.09

418

🧩 Obsessive Friendship 📱 Grief And Technology 🔍 Literary Mystery 🌀 Unreliable Narrator 📡 Digital Surveillance

GPS

After her best friend vanishes, a woman obsessively tracks the GPS dot still moving on her phone.

— Lucie Rico 2022 215 стр.

3.09

418 оценок

🧩 Obsessive Friendship 📱 Grief And Technology 🔍 Literary Mystery 🌀 Unreliable Narrator 📡 Digital Surveillance

Bubblegum

— Adam Levin • 2020

In an Internet-free America, his companion robot's cuteness tempts him to ruin his only friend.

3.76

500+

📖 Metafictional Memoir 🤖 Sentient Robots 🕰️ Alternate Present 🎭 Unreliable Narrator 📱 Consumer Satire

Bubblegum

In an Internet-free America, his companion robot's cuteness tempts him to ruin his only friend.

— Adam Levin 2020 771 стр.

3.76

500+ оценок

📖 Metafictional Memoir 🤖 Sentient Robots 🕰️ Alternate Present 🎭 Unreliable Narrator 📱 Consumer Satire

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