Bai luan ve Metafiction: How Stories Reflect on the Process of Their Own Creation

The Architecture of Self-Conscious Narrative

Metafiction serves as a mirror held up to the face of narrative, exposing the artifice that traditional realism seeks to conceal. While classical prose often strives for an immersive suspension of disbelief, metafictional works intentionally disrupt this illusion to examine the machinery of storytelling. By foregrounding the literary architecture, these self-conscious narratives transform the act of writing from a private labor into an explicit subject of inquiry. This essay explores metafiction: how stories reflect on the process of their own creation, specifically examining how such techniques destabilize the boundary between the imagined world and the reality of the reader. Through this lens, literature becomes a philosophical investigation into its own existence.

The Reader as Protagonist in Calvino’s Work

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