This thesis deals with the analysis of three selected literary works of the Spanish writer Javier Cercas. It is an analysis in the context of metafictional discourse in the works The Motive, Soldiers of Salamis and The Impostor. Among the characteristics and procedures that characterize metafictional literature, the relations between history and fiction are described in the theoretical part along with the characteristics of metafictional texts and their procedures and the importance of the role of the reader in such works. Through the intertwining of metafictional relationships and the use of autobiographical, journalistic, and historiographical discourses, they show the careful reader the interesting direction the modern Spanish novel is taking and Cercas' invaluable contributions to the genre. The second part of the thesis includes a description of the three selected works and the results of the analysis, which reveals that in each of the analyzed works Javier Cercas tells at least three stories: the story of what happens to his heroes, the story of what happens to his naive reader, and the story of what happens to the story itself.
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