Day: August 22, 2011

When you are reminded (and reminded) the book is fiction but can’t help believing it is fact: metafiction meets realism

Recently through another blog, we came across the following web site: http://www.randomhouse.com/kvpa/egan/ Accompanied by some creepily contemplative music, the site opens to the depiction of a castle with blinking yellow windows backed by a billow of clouds. Across the keep is written “Hotel” and the viewer understands that the site is promoting a hotel called […]