Summary Of Annihilation By Jeff Vandermeer

In his novel Annihilation, Jeff Vandermeer uses a number of Post-Modernistic troupes, including metafiction. Vandermeer’s use of metafiction can best be highlighted by the passage in which the narrator directly addresses the reader after she discovers the pile of journals: “Can you really imagine what it was like in those first moments, peering down into that dark space, and seeing that? Perhaps you can. Perhaps you’re staring at it now” (Vandermeer 106). By directly addressing the words on the page, Vandermeer is calling attention to the act of reading itself. The narrator is aware of her audience and understands this is her account on Area X. It’s only through her that we are hearing the story. In this way, the reader lives through the events