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Yonghak Chang has been evaluated as the most esoteric writer in Korean literature history and simultaneously appraised and criticized by the literary establishment for a variety of formal experiments in his novels. This article is focused on the study of his most disputed writing style by the analysis of self-reflexivity and metafictional writing style represented in his novels. Many novels written by Yonghak Chang show the process of creating art with presenting artists as characters. They represent self-reflexivity which is the archetypal feature of metafictional writing in that they focus on the process of creating art. In ``Caricature``, the process of painting is reproduced in a novel and the art is also caricatured. Art is no more considered sophisticated and its effect becomes meaningless in the face of poverty in the modern times of expanding materialism. An abstract painters appear as the main characters in ``The birth of the inhuman`` and ``The Bronze Age``, where the reality is recomposed into fiction to them. The dialogue on the main character`s painting between the painter and the reader and the criticism on the abstract painting by the critic show that the reality cannot be reproduced. In ``Daegwallyeong``, the writer presumes reader`s unfavorable responses after the publication of the novel and removes the difference between the creation and the criticism in the course of novelization through parody and metafictional writing. ``The son of the sun`` reveals the fictiveness of the novel by metafictional writing, parodying a popular novel. In this way, Yonghak Chang has continuously grappled with the matter of writing and criticized the real world filled with fictiveness by presenting artists as main characters in his novels and giving shape to the process of creating novels and paintings.