Fiction, or the Language of Our Discontent: A Study of the Built-in Novelist in Novels by Angus Wilson, Lawrence Durrell and Doris Lessing

This study concentrates on metafictional novels by Angus Wilson, Lawrence Durrell and Doris Lessing. The various methods and degrees of the built-in novelists’ attempts to transform autobiographical experience into fiction are surveyed and followed by a discussion of the validity of mimetic presuppositions about fiction. The alternatives to realism are then discussed against the background of recent narratological theories.