Metafiction at its best enables Barthelme to have created more realistic and convincing works, established a bond of intimacy between writer and reader and finally promoted the development of fiction.

• 巴塞尔姆用超小说创作出了更能反映现实、更有说服力的作品，加强了作者和读者的亲密联系，促进了小说的发展。