Mapping the storyverse

A new website provides some unexpected route maps by hooking up the characters that move from one fiction into anotherThe concept of a "metafictional reality" – a sideways universe in which characters in books know they are characters in books – is one that has long fascinated writers and readers.The device has been employed by writers at every end of the spectrum. Jorge Luis Borges's inter-threaded narratives fold in on each other even as they separate themselves with fictional walls; in Ja...

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