Oracle Night

s-tier auster, one of his most successful skirmishes with ‘meta fiction'. here his protagonist author is openly struggling with what is essentially narrative (his memoir, his novel in his memoir, his novel in his novel in his memoir, his screenplay in his memoir, it goes on). these texts fluctuate in complexity, certitude, completion, and ultimately consequence. remarkably, they each bear their own logic and agency in a way that is surprisingly not annoying, and stimulate a collision course of events over nine days

Amazingly written, it gets three stars because of the somewhat abrupt ending, not consistent with the rest of the book.