The Metafiction in Saudi short story

Abstract

Metafiction is a technical type in narrative writing from the effect of narrating Postmodernism which characterized by experimentation and breaking regular sorts, that means the speech of the novel to itself, and turning around describing its internal world, and discussing critical perceptions around narration. The very beginning of using this term in critical studies returns back to the American narrator and novelist William H.Gass, as he considered the first to use this idiom according to the points of view of all who have worked in the field of metafiction. The phenomenon of metafiction has gained the interest of the theoretical researchers and implementers in a big amount of Arabic novels, because it is a technique that has grown up in the novel, and turned in its space.While contemplating the short story texts, we observe metafiction figures that reveals the practice of this technique in the art of short story, as searching about it and finding its forms doesn’t take the enough interest like that in the novel. From here the idea of that research comes to record the features and forms of metafiction in the art of Saudi short story.