Etymology

surfiction

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Today it means: A style of fiction that rejects realism and advertises its own fictional status, similar to metafiction, postmodernism or fabulation. Full definition →

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Coined by Raymond Federman in his 1973 manifesto "Surfiction—A Position".

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