poioumenonEtymologyAncient Greek ποιούμενον (poioúmenon), "product".nounA specific type of metafiction in which the story is about the process of creation (sometimes the creation of the story itself).“The poioumenon has a long prehistory (hardly a tradition), going back through Beckett's trilogy and Carlyle's Sartor Resartus to Sterne's Tristram Shandy; but it is preeminently a postmodernist genre.”