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Q&A Name of writing style or structure of novel that is in non-chronological order

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...

posted 10y ago by micapam‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by System‭

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#2: Initial revision by (deleted user) · 2019-12-08T03:26:38Z (almost 5 years ago)
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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