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Nested Narratives: read a book which has a story told within another story.
Examples: Frankenstein, Moon Over Manifest, The Monk, Cloud Atlas, Wuthering Heights, Revolution...
You can use the tags "nested narratives" (which is wonky, it looks like), "story within a story", "frame story", and other variations to see if you have a book that fits without spoiling yourself with reviews or reading the back of the book.
A nested narrative is one where you have a main story, or an outer story, and then another story is told inside it. For example, with Frankenstein, the main story is of Robert Walpole and his trip to the icy north. But within that story is the story of Dr Frankenstein. In Wuthering Heights, the main story is about whatshisname the guy who rents the house, and he is told the story of the Catherines and Heathcliffs. In Moon Over Manifest, the main story is about Abilene, but she hears a story about Jinx. In The Monk, there are two inside stories as well as poems, one of which is the tale of The Wandering Jew. Kissing the Witch is slightly different from these, because it's a collection of short stories that link to each other by having one person in Story A begin telling Story B, which has someone who begins telling Story C, etc.
What "nested narrative" isn't is a flashback. The inner story is usually about a different person, even if it's related to the main story. The main idea is that the book contains two different stories, even if they play off each other or have the same setting or share a character or two. It also isn't a story which is about another story unless that second one is recounted for the reader.
One of the reasons this challenge occurred to me is that frame stories and multiple narratives within a single book are a favored narrative device of mine. :D It's so neat to see how two different stories intertwine and bring to light elements of each other, or play off each other. I recall that Chatterton and The Satanic Verses were really cool with the playing the narratives off each other, but I don't recall exactly if Chatterton would work or not, because I think it's more of a time traveling story (it's been a while since I read it, and it was crazy complicated).
I know there are probably several terms for this narrative device, but I settled on "nested" because it encompasses a wider variety than "frame story" while still specifically saying there are more than one narratives - and usually there is at least one story that is the biggest matryoshka doll and ties the two (or more) narratives together.
Nested Narratives: read a book which has a story told within another story.
Examples: Frankenstein, Moon Over Manifest, The Monk, Cloud Atlas, Wuthering Heights, Revolution...
You can use the tags "nested narratives" (which is wonky, it looks like), "story within a story", "frame story", and other variations to see if you have a book that fits without spoiling yourself with reviews or reading the back of the book.
A nested narrative is one where you have a main story, or an outer story, and then another story is told inside it. For example, with Frankenstein, the main story is of Robert Walpole and his trip to the icy north. But within that story is the story of Dr Frankenstein. In Wuthering Heights, the main story is about whatshisname the guy who rents the house, and he is told the story of the Catherines and Heathcliffs. In Moon Over Manifest, the main story is about Abilene, but she hears a story about Jinx. In The Monk, there are two inside stories as well as poems, one of which is the tale of The Wandering Jew. Kissing the Witch is slightly different from these, because it's a collection of short stories that link to each other by having one person in Story A begin telling Story B, which has someone who begins telling Story C, etc.
What "nested narrative" isn't is a flashback. The inner story is usually about a different person, even if it's related to the main story. The main idea is that the book contains two different stories, even if they play off each other or have the same setting or share a character or two. It also isn't a story which is about another story unless that second one is recounted for the reader.
One of the reasons this challenge occurred to me is that frame stories and multiple narratives within a single book are a favored narrative device of mine. :D It's so neat to see how two different stories intertwine and bring to light elements of each other, or play off each other. I recall that Chatterton and The Satanic Verses were really cool with the playing the narratives off each other, but I don't recall exactly if Chatterton would work or not, because I think it's more of a time traveling story (it's been a while since I read it, and it was crazy complicated).
I know there are probably several terms for this narrative device, but I settled on "nested" because it encompasses a wider variety than "frame story" while still specifically saying there are more than one narratives - and usually there is at least one story that is the biggest matryoshka doll and ties the two (or more) narratives together.
