![]() However, metafiction is something neither new nor inherently American. Metafiction is fiction that calls attention to its representational techniques and knowledge claims. Garmendia’s text is the first Spanish American metafictional short story that responds to avant-garde innovations, deriving from the metafiction which appears in Spanish American avant-garde novels. In the last part, Garmendia’s text is related to the Spanish American first avant-garde novels that have the same metafictional structure. ![]() ![]() Experimentalism of the metafictional structure of "El cuento ficticio" because it uses an expositive discourse in the present and future tenses that replaces the narrative discourse in the past tense as a verbal form which characterizes narration (Weinrich). with the realist tradition and to experimentalism. Firstly, Garmendia’s text is studied as a model of avant-garde metafiction because it responds to the breaking. The objective of this study is to analyze how metafiction, on which Julio Garmendia’s "El cuento ficticio" (1927) is concentrated, works in order to determine that its metafiction is an expression of the Spanish American Avant-Garde of the twenties and thirties, or first Avant-Garde. Reading these older fictions alongside more recent and better-known novels defamiliarizes our inherited ideas about experimental fiction and perhaps makes possible a fresh account of fictional experimentation in English. So-called it-narratives, ephemeral works about objects and animals written largely by hacks, confute the notion that experimentalism is the preserve of avant-garde artists pursuing highbrow aesthetic programs. century, for instance, tested ideas about character, plot, time, narration, and the materiality of print before any consensus had been reached about the conventions of the novel. Many fictions published in the eighteenth. However, to focus exclusively on the twentieth-century vogue for innovative fiction is to overlook a longer, more uneven history of experimentation. ![]() The term “experimental fiction” typically evokes the challenge to nineteenth-century realism posed by modernists such as Joyce and Woolf, or conjures up later novels labeled postmodern or metafictional. ![]()
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