Italo Calvino’s if on a winter’s night a traveller and Flann O’Brien’s the third policeman as vital models of the empirical world

• Main Author: Yong, Glennice Jing-Yi
• Other Authors: Cornelius Anthony Murphy
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2015
• Subjects: DRNTU::Humanities::Language::English
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/65629
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Contending with realist fiction’s claims to verisimilitude, this essay posits that postmodern metafictions such as Calvino’s If on a Winter’s Night a Traveller (Iwn) and Flann O’Brien’s The Third Policeman render a connection between life and art that goes beyond mere surface similarity. While reali...