intertextuality

I read N.E. Bode's book _The Anybodies_ this weekend. It's a creative story. The thing I'm most interested in is it's intertextuality. It matches up with Maria Nikoljelavia's ideas about intertextuality. The author expects the reader to have read a certain number of classics in order to fully get everything out of the book. But, Bode does list off all of the books he references on his webpage, and that seems to minimize the effect somehow.

The things I don't like about the book--It is too obviously set up for a sequel and the author interrupts the story why too often to talk about himself. He doesn't do the nineteenth century dear reader bit, but he reminds the reader too often that this is a book and how this is fantasy and it differs from reality. To me that seems like a bit of intertexutality in and of itself.