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This book is about the metanarrative and metafictional elements of J. M. Coetzee’s novels. It draws together authorship, readership, ethics, and formal analysis into one overarching argument about how narratives work the boundary between art and life. On the basis of Coetzee’s writing, it reconsiders the concept of metalepsis, challenges common understandings of self-reflexive discourse, and invites us to rethink our practice as critics and readers. This study analyzes Coetzee’s novels in three chapters organized thematically around the author’s relation with character, reader, and self. Author and character are discussed on the basis of Foe, Slow Man, and Coetzee’s Nobel lecture, 'He and His Man'. Stories featuring the character Elizabeth Costello, or the figuration Elizabeth Curren, serve to elaborate the relation of author and reader. The study ends on a reading of Summertime, Diary of a Bad Year, and Dusklands as Coetzee’s engagement with autobiographical writing, analyzing the relation of author and self. It will appeal to readers with an interest in literary and narrative theory as much as to Coetzee scholars and advanced students.

Metalepsis. --- Discourse analysis, Narrative. --- Coetzee, J. M., --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Narrative discourse analysis --- Coetzee, John M., --- Кутзее, Дж. М., --- Kutzee, Dzh. M., --- קוטזי, ג׳. מ., --- Кутзее, Джон Максвелл, --- Kutzee, Dzhon Maksvell, --- Narration (Rhetoric) --- Figures of speech --- Literary style --- Literature, Modern-20th century. --- Literature   . --- African literature. --- Literature-Philosophy. --- Contemporary Literature. --- Twentieth-Century Literature. --- Postcolonial/World Literature. --- African Literature. --- Literary Theory. --- Black literature (African) --- Authors, African --- Belles-lettres --- Western literature (Western countries) --- World literature --- Philology --- Authors --- Authorship --- Literature, Modern—20th century. --- Literature, Modern—21st century. --- Literature—Philosophy.

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This open access book offers innovative and wide-ranging responses to the continuously flourishing literary phenomenon of autofiction. The book shows the insights that are gained in the shift from the genre descriptor to the adjective, and from a broad application of “the autofictional” as a theoretical lens and aesthetic strategy. In three sections on “Approaches,” “Affordances,” and “Forms,” the volume proposes new theoretical approaches for the study of autofiction and the autofictional, offers fresh perspectives on many of the prominent authors in the discussion, draws them into a dialogue with autofictional practice from across the globe, and brings into view texts, forms, and media that have not traditionally been considered for their autofictional dimensions. The book, in sum, expands the parameters of research on autofiction to date to allow new voices and viewpoints to emerge.

Literature: history & criticism --- Literary theory --- Literature & literary studies --- Historiography --- Autofiction --- Autobiography --- Life writing --- Comparative literature --- World literature --- Narrative theory --- Biography --- Memoir --- Identity studies --- Postcolonialism --- Travel writing --- Open Access --- Autobiographical fiction --- Literature --- History and criticism. --- Philosophy.