I haven't read the Sayers, but it's on my library hold list now. Thanks!
I do think the metafiction needs to play fair, but even then there are some readers who won't follow a writer there. They're just not interested in the same way someone else would not be interested in a story about a detective who has conversation after conversation about some incident that occurred in the past. I love it, but I can see why others wouldn't.
And I completely forgot a metafiction "book" I read years ago: the Animal Man comics from the late eighties.
Animal Man was an uninspiring hero in the DC Universe that had a string of very strange issues at the end of Grant Morrison's run. Ur svefg zrg n pnegbba Jvyr R. Pblbgr jub unq onetnvarq jvgu uvf navzngbe gb or frg serr sebz uvf bja ivbyrag jbeyq vagb gur pbzvp obbx jbeyq. Gur raq bs gur vffhr npghnyyl fubjrq na navzngbe'f cnvag oehfu pbybevat va gur fprar.
Bire gur arkg frireny vffhrf, Navzny Zna'f snzvyl vf xvyyrq, naq juvyr ur tbrf penml gnxvat eriratr, ur ortvaf gb ernyvmr gung ur'f n svpgvbany punenpgre va n pbzvp obbx. Ur geniryf gb gur arirejbeyq jurer hahfrq punenpgref jnvg gb or jevggra vagb gur fgbevrf ntnva. Ur zrrgf punenpgref jub erzrzore gur erinzcf naq erivfvbaf gung gur rqvgbef unir qvpgngrq bagb gur QP Havirefr. Punenpgref gnxr abgr bs gur cnary obeqref naq pbzzrag ba gur tvnag snprf bs gur ernqref ybbxvat qbja ba gurz naq rawblvat gurve zvfrel. Navzny Zna rira zbirf bhgfvqr gur obeqref bs gur pbzvp cnaryf gb tnva na nqinagntr va n svtug.
Svanyyl, ur zrrgf uvf bja jevgre, naq gur gjb bs gurz fcraq na ragver vffhr gnyxvat nobhg nyy gur ubeevoyr guvatf gur jevgre qvq gb gur punenpgre, naq gur jevgre'f whfgvsvpngvba sbe vg. Gurl raq gur vffhr, nf V erzrzore, jvgu gur jevgre oevatvat Navzny Zna'f snzvyl onpx gb yvsr--rffragvnyyl jvcvat njnl gur ynfg frireny vffhrf jvgu "Vg jnf bayl n qernz" be fbzrguvat fvzvyne.
At the time I first read it, I didn't care for it much. I was looking for something specific and this wasn't it. I'd like a chance to go back to it again now that I'm older and very, very slighty more mature.
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I do think the metafiction needs to play fair, but even then there are some readers who won't follow a writer there. They're just not interested in the same way someone else would not be interested in a story about a detective who has conversation after conversation about some incident that occurred in the past. I love it, but I can see why others wouldn't.
And I completely forgot a metafiction "book" I read years ago: the Animal Man comics from the late eighties.
Animal Man was an uninspiring hero in the DC Universe that had a string of very strange issues at the end of Grant Morrison's run. Ur svefg zrg n pnegbba Jvyr R. Pblbgr jub unq onetnvarq jvgu uvf navzngbe gb or frg serr sebz uvf bja ivbyrag jbeyq vagb gur pbzvp obbx jbeyq. Gur raq bs gur vffhr npghnyyl fubjrq na navzngbe'f cnvag oehfu pbybevat va gur fprar.
Bire gur arkg frireny vffhrf, Navzny Zna'f snzvyl vf xvyyrq, naq juvyr ur tbrf penml gnxvat eriratr, ur ortvaf gb ernyvmr gung ur'f n svpgvbany punenpgre va n pbzvp obbx. Ur geniryf gb gur arirejbeyq jurer hahfrq punenpgref jnvg gb or jevggra vagb gur fgbevrf ntnva. Ur zrrgf punenpgref jub erzrzore gur erinzcf naq erivfvbaf gung gur rqvgbef unir qvpgngrq bagb gur QP Havirefr. Punenpgref gnxr abgr bs gur cnary obeqref naq pbzzrag ba gur tvnag snprf bs gur ernqref ybbxvat qbja ba gurz naq rawblvat gurve zvfrel. Navzny Zna rira zbirf bhgfvqr gur obeqref bs gur pbzvp cnaryf gb tnva na nqinagntr va n svtug.
Svanyyl, ur zrrgf uvf bja jevgre, naq gur gjb bs gurz fcraq na ragver vffhr gnyxvat nobhg nyy gur ubeevoyr guvatf gur jevgre qvq gb gur punenpgre, naq gur jevgre'f whfgvsvpngvba sbe vg. Gurl raq gur vffhr, nf V erzrzore, jvgu gur jevgre oevatvat Navzny Zna'f snzvyl onpx gb yvsr--rffragvnyyl jvcvat njnl gur ynfg frireny vffhrf jvgu "Vg jnf bayl n qernz" be fbzrguvat fvzvyne.
At the time I first read it, I didn't care for it much. I was looking for something specific and this wasn't it. I'd like a chance to go back to it again now that I'm older and very, very slighty more mature.