Metafictional

adj

adj ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Of, relating to, or being metafiction. not-comparable

    "Full of sly jokes, riddles and metafictional high-jinks, his work had the voltage of a thriller (offering a rare voice of disapproval, the New Yorker critic James Wood accused his works of pedalling a “B-movie atmosphere”)."

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"Full of sly jokes, riddles and metafictional high-jinks, his work had the voltage of a thriller (offering a rare voice of disapproval, the New Yorker critic James Wood accused his works of pedalling a “B-movie atmosphere”)."

Etymology

From meta- + fictional.

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