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If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler (Paperback)
by (shelved 148 times as metafiction)
avg rating 4.01 — 111,725 ratings — published 1979
House of Leaves (Paperback)
by (shelved 101 times as metafiction)
avg rating 4.09 — 199,839 ratings — published 2000
Slaughterhouse-Five (Paperback)
by (shelved 99 times as metafiction)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,481,065 ratings — published 1969
Pale Fire (Paperback)
by (shelved 71 times as metafiction)
avg rating 4.17 — 57,484 ratings — published 1962
The Eyre Affair (Thursday Next, #1)
by (shelved 70 times as metafiction)
avg rating 3.88 — 137,175 ratings — published 2001
The Princess Bride (Paperback)
by (shelved 61 times as metafiction)
avg rating 4.27 — 947,212 ratings — published 1973
The New York Trilogy (New York Trilogy, #1-3)
by (shelved 53 times as metafiction)
avg rating 3.86 — 86,798 ratings — published 1987
Breakfast of Champions (Paperback)
by (shelved 48 times as metafiction)
avg rating 4.06 — 279,549 ratings — published 1973
Cloud Atlas (Paperback)
by (shelved 46 times as metafiction)
avg rating 4.01 — 267,395 ratings — published 2004
Redshirts (ebook)
by (shelved 45 times as metafiction)
avg rating 3.87 — 117,573 ratings — published 2012
The Name of the Rose (Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as metafiction)
avg rating 4.14 — 394,990 ratings — published 1980
Sophie’s World (Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as metafiction)
avg rating 3.97 — 281,898 ratings — published 1991
The French Lieutenant’s Woman (Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as metafiction)
avg rating 3.88 — 55,510 ratings — published 1969
The Neverending Story (Hardcover)
by (shelved 36 times as metafiction)
avg rating 4.18 — 220,650 ratings — published 1979
The Blind Assassin (Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as metafiction)
avg rating 3.96 — 163,394 ratings — published 2000
Lost in a Good Book (Thursday Next, #2)
by (shelved 35 times as metafiction)
avg rating 4.13 — 56,110 ratings — published 2002
Don Quixote (Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as metafiction)
avg rating 3.91 — 304,796 ratings — published 1615
Atonement (Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as metafiction)
avg rating 3.95 — 562,746 ratings — published 2001
At Swim-Two-Birds (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as metafiction)
avg rating 3.85 — 14,305 ratings — published 1939
S. (Hardcover)
by (shelved 33 times as metafiction)
avg rating 3.85 — 28,837 ratings — published 2013
Inkheart (Inkworld, #1)
by (shelved 31 times as metafiction)
avg rating 3.93 — 442,652 ratings — published 2003
Ficciones (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as metafiction)
avg rating 4.40 — 78,946 ratings — published 1944
Possession (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as metafiction)
avg rating 3.90 — 84,349 ratings — published 1990
The Well of Lost Plots (Thursday Next, #3)
by (shelved 28 times as metafiction)
avg rating 4.09 — 42,480 ratings — published 2003
The Handmaid's Tale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as metafiction)
avg rating 4.15 — 2,415,521 ratings — published 1985
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as metafiction)
avg rating 4.04 — 92,969 ratings — published 1967
Infinite Jest (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.25 — 101,312 ratings — published 1996
Invisible Cities (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.10 — 97,090 ratings — published 1972
Lost in the Funhouse (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.68 — 6,736 ratings — published 1968
The Crying of Lot 49 (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.69 — 97,188 ratings — published 1966
Something Rotten (Thursday Next, #4)
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avg rating 4.16 — 36,015 ratings — published 2004
First Among Sequels (Thursday Next, #5)
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avg rating 4.02 — 27,576 ratings — published 2007
Labyrinths: Selected Stories & Other Writings (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as metafiction)
avg rating 4.44 — 33,798 ratings — published 1962
Foucault’s Pendulum (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as metafiction)
avg rating 3.91 — 74,810 ratings — published 1988
The Raw Shark Texts (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as metafiction)
avg rating 3.82 — 21,657 ratings — published 2007
Yellowface (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as metafiction)
avg rating 3.73 — 1,021,317 ratings — published 2023
Hamlet (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as metafiction)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,048,837 ratings — published 1601
Lolita (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 22 times as metafiction)
avg rating 3.87 — 943,867 ratings — published 1955
Houdini Heart (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as metafiction)
avg rating 3.84 — 5,453 ratings — published 2011
A Tale for the Time Being (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as metafiction)
avg rating 4.06 — 134,875 ratings — published 2013
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #1)
by (shelved 22 times as metafiction)
avg rating 4.22 — 2,012,758 ratings — published 1979
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as metafiction)
avg rating 3.73 — 23,027 ratings — published 1767
Life of Pi (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as metafiction)
avg rating 3.94 — 1,751,765 ratings — published 2001
Chloe and the Lion (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.01 — 3,632 ratings — published 2012
The Shadow of the Wind (The Cemetery of Forgotten Books, #1)
by (shelved 21 times as metafiction)
avg rating 4.31 — 718,294 ratings — published 2001
Fahrenheit 451 (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 21 times as metafiction)
avg rating 3.97 — 2,828,679 ratings — published 1953
The Things They Carried (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as metafiction)
avg rating 4.15 — 344,390 ratings — published 1990
Northanger Abbey (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.85 — 452,898 ratings — published 1817
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.87 — 254,836 ratings — published 2004
The Master and Margarita (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as metafiction)
avg rating 4.28 — 419,158 ratings — published 1967
“The end of this history saw the banality of art merge with the banality of the real world - Duchamp's act, with its automatic transference of the object, being the inaugural (and ironic) gesture in this process. The transference of all reality into aesthetics, which has become one of the dimensions of generalized exchange...
All this under the banner of a simultaneous liberation of art and the real world.
This 'liberation' has in fact consisted in indexing the two to each other - a chiasmus lethal to both.
The transference of art, become a useless function, into a reality that is now integral, since it has absorbed everything that denied, exceeded or transfigured it. The impossible exchange of this Integral Reality for anything else whatever. Given this, it can only exchange itself for itself or, in other words, repeat itself ad infinitum.
What could miraculously reassure us today about the essence of art? Art is quite simply what is at issue in the world of art, in that desperately self-obsessed artistic community. The 'creative' act doubles up on itself and is now nothing more than a sign of its own operation - the painter's true subject is no longer what he paints but the very fact that he paints. He paints the fact that he paints. At least in that way the idea of art remains intact.”
― The Intelligence of Evil or the Lucidity Pact
All this under the banner of a simultaneous liberation of art and the real world.
This 'liberation' has in fact consisted in indexing the two to each other - a chiasmus lethal to both.
The transference of art, become a useless function, into a reality that is now integral, since it has absorbed everything that denied, exceeded or transfigured it. The impossible exchange of this Integral Reality for anything else whatever. Given this, it can only exchange itself for itself or, in other words, repeat itself ad infinitum.
What could miraculously reassure us today about the essence of art? Art is quite simply what is at issue in the world of art, in that desperately self-obsessed artistic community. The 'creative' act doubles up on itself and is now nothing more than a sign of its own operation - the painter's true subject is no longer what he paints but the very fact that he paints. He paints the fact that he paints. At least in that way the idea of art remains intact.”
― The Intelligence of Evil or the Lucidity Pact
“How is your father?” she asks disinterestedly.
“A contrivance,” I mutter. “A plot device.”
― Glamorama
“A contrivance,” I mutter. “A plot device.”
― Glamorama
