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Does anyone know any metafiction books/authors besides John Barth or Breakfast of Champions.

Also, speaking of which, has anyone read Sophie's World by Josteinn Gaarder, and what did you think of it.

>> No.6690521

bump

>> No.6690554

>>6689445
Double Bump

>> No.6690561

>>6690554
>7 minutes
/lit/ is a slow board, this thread will be here tomorrow and the day after that.

>> No.6690595

Don Quixote Part 2, but that was probably obvious. Also part 1 but to a lesser extent.

>> No.6690599

>>6689445
Flann O'Brien's At Swim Two Birds is the best metafiction there is

>> No.6690619

I thought Sophie's World was great but the author could have spared me from his opinions about feminism and the UN

>> No.6690647

At Swim-Two-Birds
Tristam Shandy
If on a winter's night a traveler

there's some magical realist book that came out this year that seems like it would fit in this category...with this library where things change in the history books and it changes reality. but I haven't read it and I don't remember what it was called, just that it sounded cool

>> No.6690680

>>6690647
was it Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights by Salman Rushdie?

>> No.6690695

>>6690680
I haven't read that but that wasn't it. I love Rushdie though. I think it was a debut novel or a 2nd novel by some eastern European writer.

>> No.6691561

>>6689445
Don Quijote

>> No.6692313

If on a winter's night a traveller

it's shit

>> No.6692615

>>6690599
seconded

I suppose Paul Auster's New York Trilogy should be mentioned.

My opinion: Sophie's World is a lame 'little prince' tier book for adolescent girls who are too lazy to read the philosophers own works and/or the widely available textbooks on the subjects.

>> No.6692640

>>6689445
>has anyone read Sophie's World by Josteinn Gaarder

yes, a very long time ago. I remember liking it when I read it when I was like 12 or so. It's basically community college phil. 101: the book.

>> No.6692644

Try Kolsti Nguyen

>> No.6693112

>>6689445
>>6690647
>>6690680
>>6690695
I found/remembered it. it's called The Rabbit Back Literature Society. I haven't read it, it just looks cool. thanks for reading my post

>> No.6693125

>>6692313
Shut your fucking, plebeian mouth and never suggest that Calvino is anything less than God again, you contemptible scum.

Sophie's Workd is ok if you have zero experience with philosophy. It's a starting point and nothing more

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6693206

>Lanark: A Life in Four Books
by Alasdair Gray

>> No.6693210

>>6693206
i've seen this every day for the past few days, so i must ask what's going on?

>> No.6693217

Borges and Nabokov

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>>6693206
>>6693210

I'm guilty of having posted it twice, but it looks like other Anons have as well...

I took a random stab at pic related, came up with Lanark, and was pleasantly surprised.

The weirdly recursive structure (which I won't spoil) is particularly satisfying once it comes full circle, and you'll look at the illustrations completely differently once you've finished.
It's both funny and depressing, and for a recovering /r9k/-tier fuck-up like myself, weirdly personally revelatory.

>tfw the character you most strongly identify with is a suicidal Glaswegian NEET
It's a complicated Feel.

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>>6693340
fuck, wrong version of the chart

>> No.6693356

>>6693340
This is from 2012, crazy how much our opinions have changed since then. Stoner is like an entry level /lit/core now.