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Postmodern literature has many charecteristics like intertextuality, pastiche, maximalim, irony, hyperreality, paranoia, fragmentation and histriographic metafiction.  Metafiction makes awareness in the readers that it is fiction.  In a metafiction, there is a story within story or there are obvious references to the narrative.  But in a histriographic metafiction, history is fictionalized and fiction is historicisized and it also functions as a metafiction.  In Baltasar and Blimunda, Saramago uses the history of King Dom João V and fictionalizes it by mixing the romance of imaginary characters like Baltasar and Blimunda.

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