What is autobiographical metafiction?

Answer 1

Over the last twenty years, novelists have tended to become much more conscious of the theoretical issues involved in constructing fictions. In consequence, their novels have tended to embody dimensions of self-reflexivity and formal uncertainty. What connects not only these quotations but also all of the very different writers whom one could refer to as broadly 'meta-fictional', is that they all explore a theory of fiction through the practice of writing fiction.

Answer 2

Autobiographical metafiction is a genre of literature that blends elements of autobiography with postmodern narrative techniques such as self-reflexivity, intertextuality, and metafictional strategies. It often blurs the line between fact and fiction, playing with the idea of storytelling and questioning the nature of truth. Writers like Italo Calvino and Paul Auster are known for their use of autobiographical metafiction.