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Nonlinear Narrative
Original title: 非線形の語り口
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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.
非線形の語り口(ひせんけいのかたりくち、英: nonlinear narrative, disjointed narrative, disrupted narrative)は、文学、映画などに用いられる物語技法で、具体的には、出来事を時系列通りに記述しなかったり、因果関係が直接的でなかったり、並行したプロット、夢の挿入、劇中劇などがある。構造の模倣、記憶の再生、などを目的として使用される。
文学
物語を最初からでなく途中から始める"イン・メディアス・レス"は古代からあり、紀元前8世紀のホメロスの叙事詩『イーリアス』で確立された1。紀元前5世紀頃に作られたインドの叙事詩『マハーバーラタ』はストーリーのほとんどをフラッシュバックで語っている。中世の『千夜一夜物語』のうち『シンドバッド』『真鍮の都』『三つの林檎』にはイン・メディアス・レスとフラッシュバックの両方が使われているが、これは『パンチャタントラ』にインスパイアされたものと言われる2。
19世紀後半から20世紀初頭にかけて、モダニズム文学のジョゼフ・コンラッド、ヴァージニア・ウルフ、フォード・マドックス・フォード、マルセル・プルースト、ウィリアム・フォークナーらが前衛的な非線形の語り口を用いた
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