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Nonlinear Narrative

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Nonlinear narrative (Japanese reading: hisenkei no katarikuchi; English: nonlinear narrative, disjointed narrative, disrupted narrative) is a storytelling technique used in literature, film, and other media. Examples include events described out of chronological order, indirect causal relationships, parallel plots, inserted dreams, and plays within plays. It is used for purposes such as imitating structure and reproducing memory. Literature “In medias res,” starting a story midway rather than from its beginning, has existed since antiquity and was established in Homer’s epic “Iliad” in the 8th century BCE1. The Indian epic “Mahabharata,” created around the 5th century BCE, tells most of its story through flashbacks. Among the medieval “One Thousand and One Nights,” “Sindbad,” “The City of Brass,” and “The Three Apples” use both in medias res and flashbacks; this is said to have been inspired by the “Panchatantra”2. From the late 19th to early 20th century, modernist writers Joseph Conrad, Virginia Woolf, Ford Madox Ford, Marcel Proust, William Faulkner, and others used avant-garde nonlinear narration.

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