[2] In its narratological sense, metalepsis, first identified by Genette, is a paradoxical contamination between the world of the telling and the world of the told: “any intrusion by the extradiegetic narrator or narratee into the diegetic universe (or by diegetic characters into a metadiegetic universe, etc.), or the inverse [...]” ([1972] 1980: 234–35). Described as “taking hold of (telling) ...

This essay focuses on Paul Auster’s novel, Invisible (2009), aiming to explore the text’s intricate metafictional dimensions, especially deployment of metalepsis as main organizing principle its narrative structure. The author argues that novel employs a subtle metaleptic structure, which moves beyond classical postmodernist phase textual experimentation, and serves means raising questions ethi...

As a writer who read and followed the contemporary literature literary theory in several different languages intensively contemplated act of reading thematised it his belletristic prose, Kiš had already problematised novel The Attic most important aspects reading, brought to light actualised by classical placed at centre research post-classical narration: first person narration problem identity...

The purpose of this study is to show that direct speech in narratives introduced by “von wegen” (‘like’) and “nach dem Motto” (‘along the lines of’) can be analyzed as a powerful means transform stretch talk into massive “stance index” which transcends boundaries between narrator’s world narrated terms narrative metalepsis. “Von are non-canonical reporting frames syntactically flexible semantic...