Esej o Metafiction: How Stories Reflect on the Process of Their Own Creation - 266 slow

The Mirror of Narrative

Metafiction functions as a literary hall of mirrors, where the narrative gaze turns inward to examine its own construction. Unlike traditional realism, which seeks to immerse the reader in a seamless secondary world, these self-reflexive works deliberately fracture the "fourth wall." By highlighting the inherent artifice of plot and character, authors invite the audience to participate in the intellectual labor of world-building. This technique transforms the act of reading from passive consumption into an active interrogation of how meaning is manufactured through language.

Scaffolding and Artifice

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