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I don't know any one word that encompasses both. But if a narrative is not chronological, it's anachronic, and if it follows multiple characters, it's heterodiegetic. So maybe heterodiegetic anac...
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I don't know any one word that encompasses both. But if a narrative is not chronological, it's **anachronic** , and if it follows multiple characters, it's **heterodiegetic**. So maybe **heterodiegetic anachrony** is the term you're looking for. Source: Gérard Genette, _Narrative Discourse: An Essay in Method_, trans. by Jane Lewin (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1980).
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