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'''''When Fiction Lives in Fiction''''' is the title of a significant narrative essay written in 1939 by the Argentinian writer [[Biography:Jorge Luis Borges|Jorge Luis Borges]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.penguinrandomhouse.ca/books/304312/on-writing-by-jorge-luis-borges/9780143105725/excerpt|title = Excerpt from on Writing}}</ref> Weighing in at something less than three pages in length, Borges explores the teleological nature of metadocuments in fiction, for example, [[Social:False document|false document]]s.

Amongst the works examined in this essay are William Shakespeare's play ''Hamlet,'' with its play-within-a-play, Gustav Meyrink's novel, ''The Golem'', with its motifs of dreams within dreams, and the nub of the essay itself, a short review of the then recently published ''At Swim-Two-Birds'' by Irish writer Flann O'Brien, with its circular daisy chain of characters writing novels about each other.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://bluelabyrinths.com/2015/01/29/borges-when-fiction-lives-in-fiction/|title=When Fiction Lives in Fiction|date=29 January 2015}}</ref>

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