Meta-Novels Ive Known and Loved

Explore a curated list of beloved meta-novels that play with narrative form and storytelling. Discover books that break the fourth wall and redefine literature.

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Jacques the Fatalist and His Master

by Denis Diderot

'Your Jacques is a tasteless mishmash of things that happen, some of them true, others made up, written without style and served up like a …
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Ulysses

by James Joyce

This revised volume of the acclaimed novel follows the complete unabridged text as corrected in 1961. Set entirely on one day, 16 June 1904, Ulysses …
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The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

 

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Valis

by Philip K. Dick

Horselover Fat begins receiving what he considers to be divine revelations that imply extraterrestrial forces are interfering in the affairs of the Earth.
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Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World

by Haruki Murakami

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of 1Q84 and The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle comes a relentlessly inventive novel that dives deep into the …
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Ficciones. C Edited and with an Introduction by Anthony Kerrigan

by Jorge Luis Borges

Seventeen short stories.
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Invisible Cities

by Italo Calvino

In Kublai Khan's garden, at sunset, the young Marco Polo diverts the aged emperor from his obsession with the impending end of his empire with …
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The temptation of St. Anthony

 

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