Don Quixote, and even Shakespeare's Hamlet, have been labeled as containing elements of metafiction; and in this regard some critics claim that the definitions for metafiction, and their application, are too broad to be used with much precision. ...

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A comparison of Death in Venice by Thomas Mann and Baron in the Trees by Italo Calvino Solitary individuals often exploit different views on our world, sometimes accompanied by a "disharmonious" way of living, as we can see in these two books. The concept of a distant view on life, is applied in ...

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