METAFICTION ON TWITTER: HECTOR ABAD’S ONE THOUSAND AND ONE TWEETS

Abstract

The purpose of this article is to analyze the metafictional aspects of Colombian author Hector Abad’s project to write a novel on twitter: One Thousand and One Tweets (2010a). The study of the metafiction consisted on identifying and explaining the literary tropes that made it possible for the author to generate a self-referential type of fiction. The elements examined included intertextuality, author and narrator categories, metalepsis and the construction processes of a novel explained by the narrative project itself. The results of the analysis were that the use of metafiction was not only limited to the different diegetic planes, but in terms of co-references, it also alluded to the external world: the users who interact with their accounts, the digital platform and, in general, the virtual environment that became part of this mode of writing.