In Leo Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina, it is mentioned in passing that Anna is writing a book. Carmen Boullosa has taken this idea and written what amounts to a fan fiction. The main characters are new, but they do interact with characters from the original novel. There are some mind-bending metafictional effects too – the characters from Anna Karenina know they are fictional, and the other characters know it too, and it is a point of discussion amongst them. Tolstoy himself appears as well, unsurprisingly having a rough time being in the page instead of writing it.
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