Do you think TCoL49 is a metafiction? Oedipa is the reader who

No. I think those elements are conscious but they're also key to the detective genre, it's only the postmodernist lens that sees it this way.

Mostly I argue against that kind of reading because it seems to ignore the much more central themes of the novella like alienation and subculture.

>>8442037
Thanks m8

>>8442030

it can be read as that

in the sense that you could argue for it in a lit class and get credit for it

but this kind of reading keeps you from actually forming a relationship with the text

>>8442030
Yes, absolutely. Torquato Tasso