It's a meta story: the story itself is framed as being a lost manuscript.
Some of the earliest novels were epistolary novels, framed as a series of letters written by a fictional person. This would make it more premodern than postmodern.
Slaughterhouse-Five and Catch-22 are legit, although I can't say the same for every work of postmodern literature.
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I vote that we call it metamodern. We can just change the prefix every time we reach a new era.
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