HISTORY AS AN INTERTEXT

Abstract

The subject of this text is the novel History of the World in 10 ½ Chapters by the British author Julian Barnes, interpreted through the prism of some of the constitutive features of historiographic metafiction. Specifically, interpretative focus is on a novelistic interest in history, seen as intertext, and consequently, over the interpretation of intertextual procedures and their functions not only in the context of this novel, but in the wider context of meta - historiographical trends in historiographic metafiction and in the context of the postmodern poetics characteristics.