John Barth, one of the most prominent postmodern authors, is famous for his creative literary games: while his favorite tool, metafiction, is at times hard to comprehend, he is almost always both the writer and a character of his stories. “Everyone is necessarily the hero of his own life story,” he said, thus
confirming the quite loose difference between reality and fiction in post-modernism. Bearing in mind that the story within a story is a common
characteristic of his work, in this paper we shall analyze the most interesting
points at which we encounter this phenomenon and discover what actually
represents the treasure in one of his most perplexing, yet incredibly captivating novels, Chimera.
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Author Name: Katarina Drzajic
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Keywords: metafiction, myth, story, storytelling
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