Barth’s Lost in the Funhouse is a classic example of Metafiction because all throughout the story, he goes in and out of reality. That is, he causes the reader to walk with him in the journey of writing the story.
The author constantly engages the reader by making a conscious effort to remind the reader what is real and what is an imaginary tale. For instance, in the story, Barth keeps explaining how stories were written in the nineteenth century in order to emphasize the falsehood of reality. However, he does this while telling the story of Lost in the Funhouse. This takes the reader out of the story which perhaps can become very confusing in trying to decipher what is real and what is an illusion.
In addition to that, Barth also suggests multiple endings of the story, identifies with the main character Ambrose and his struggle to find out who he truly is and also draw the reader in by giving him/her the chance to explore whether what was read was an illusion or reality.
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Good work, Ama. Paul
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