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[labellementeuse]

Guys, I need some help. I'm writing about how web pages and books are structured differently. It's really easy to give examples for non-fiction (I'm probably going to talk about feminism 101 and TV tropes) but I'm really struggling to think of examples for fiction, especially narrative fiction, because all of the best examples I can think of are, of course, fanfiction. I'd really like to find some stuff that demonstrates flexible narration, like Crysothemis' Fix or Cesperanza's Scrabble; I'd also really like something like Catherynne M. Valente's The Girl who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making that includes links to all parts (instead of just before and after parts) on each page, like most Big Bang fics do, for example. (I feel like before and after merely replicate the structure of the conventional book.)

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[wanderlight.livejournal.com]

Hm, that's tricky. A lot of books I know which fool around with narrative chronology do so in a way that you still kind of need to read the book in order to "get it." The best example I can think of is Manifesto, which ... is basically a blank white paperback novel, no writing on the outside, no author or title. I own it, I found a copy in a local independent bookstore, but I don't know how you can reliably find it. It's basically the stream-of-consciousness life story of a nameless typical disaffected youth, & the book is made of exactly 200 pages of nonchronological paragraphs of first-person narrative. This (http://dedrabbit.com/) is the book website. This (http://microcosmpublishing.com/catalog/zines/1986/) is one of the few places online which gives a review/blurb thing -- it's incredibly nontraditional so it's hard to describe, but if this sounds like something that would work for your paper, give me a shout & I'll try to keep explaining it? :)

As for parallel narratives -- a YA novel did that a few years back. I think? I didn't read it so I can't say for sure, but it's Flipped (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flipped). A very "literary" novel did the same thing (in prose poem, 400-page-long format, if I recall), but unfortunately I can't remember the name of it.