Re my lecture on types of point of view,
SlayerNext@aol.com wrote:
 

You forgot about a story within a story where the character you're following
knows he's the character in a book.

Thanks for bringing this up, Slayer.
Perhaps this "I know I'm in a story" is what John Byrne's _She-Hulk_
refers to as "breaking the fourth wall."  Boy, that gamma-irradiated
blood takes something out of you...
In literature, this might be referred to as "metafiction," a technique
composed of numerous tricks designed to remind the reader that s/he is
reading a piece of fiction. Metafiction is used a variety of writers
from a personal favorite of mine, the late Jorge-Luis Borges, to current
American writers such as John Barth and Robert Coover. I very much
suspect that its roots go all the way back through Shakespeare (the
"aside" to the audience) to Roman comic playwrights (like Plautus) to
the Greeks (specifically Aristophanes. Try "The Frogs" as a sample I
personally like.).

I wrote a lot of metafiction when I was in my earlier twenties, and I
found that my readers often didn't like it. I think it's cool as hell,
personally, but a lot of people don't like the fictional illusion
broken.

However, you will find some of the very thing you are referring to in my
upcoming fiction, "Who is Frustrating the Great Chefs of Europe?" I will
leave you to guess which character knows she's in the middle of a story.
"Great Chefs" is in Ch. 10 of fewer than 20, so I'm making progress...

DRM
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