This essay analyses John Barth´s short story "AUTOBIOGRAPHY: A Self-Recorded Fiction”, which was published inf the short story collection ´Lost in the Funhouse´ in 1968. The story is examined from the perspective of an intermediality / multimodality scholar. Among other things, the essay discusses the employment of several media / modes within the story and reveals limits inherent to the theories of intermediality and multimodality, pointing to the concept of heteromediality as a possible alternative.