Time is out of joint

Beschrijving
Stories which challenge our experience of time, for example by manipulating the order in which events are recounted (not simply non-chronological narration or use of flashbacks)
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Het leven een gebruiksaanwijzing
door Georges Perec
3,794 leden
55 besprekingen
½ 4.3
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bluepiano: All the events, all the characters, all the settings in the book unfold in time as it's normally perceived, yet their moments and years are erased.
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Composition No. 1
door Marc Saporta
75 leden
5 besprekingen
3.2
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bluepiano
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bluepiano: A book of un-bound pages, so the timeline differs with each reading. Saporta's intention was to suggest the importance of *when* events happen.
3
De pijl van de tijd
door Martin Amis
3,091 leden
50 besprekingen
½ 3.7
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spiphany
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spiphany: The life of a Nazi war criminal, experienced with time running backwards from his death.
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Latro in the Mist
door Gene Wolfe
648 leden
8 besprekingen
4.1
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Verklaringen
spiphany: Not strictly a manipulation of time, but the effect is similar for the reader; it is told from the perspective of a protagonist who is unable to form memories.
5
Betrayal
door Harold Pinter
579 leden
8 besprekingen
3.9
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Last Year at Marienbad
door Alain Robbe-Grillet
200 leden
3.9
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bluepiano
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bluepiano: No one knows what time it is, not to mention what they said or did. Neither does the reader/viewer.
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Archipel Roman
door Inger-Maria Mahlke
34 leden
4 besprekingen
3.2
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spiphany
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spiphany: Starts in 2015 and moves backwards to 1919
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Çocuk Nazi
door Andreas Okopenko
4 leden
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spiphany
Verklaringen
spiphany: The Nazi years from the perspective of a boy. The sequence of episodes starts with the end of the war and moves backwards.
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Spiegelgeschichte
door Ilse Aichinger
1 lid
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spiphany
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spiphany: Upon death, a woman relives her life backwards
10
Beauty on Earth
door Charles Ferdinand Ramuz
54 leden
1 bespreking
3.9
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bluepiano
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bluepiano: Ramuz plays with perspective by playing with language: in many of his books his changes tense unexpectedly, confusing the reader's sense of time.
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The Mammoth Book of Time Travel SF
door Mike Ashley
169 leden
6 besprekingen
½ 3.3
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bluepiano
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bluepiano: Much of it's enjoyable for one reading at least and the stories are by no means stock scientist-in-time-machine stuff.
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Slachthuis vijf, of De kinderkruistocht een verplichte dans met de dood
door Kurt Vonnegut
44,008 leden
705 besprekingen
4.1
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Use of Weapons
door Iain M. Banks
5,437 leden
143 besprekingen
4
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Counter-Clock World
door Philip K. Dick
1,264 leden
29 besprekingen
½ 3.4
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Greenwood
door Michael Christie
554 leden
26 besprekingen
4.1
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Europeana: A Brief History of the Twentieth Century
door Patrik Ouředník
326 leden
14 besprekingen
½ 3.7
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High Tide
door Inga Abele
68 leden
2 besprekingen
4.1
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Feliz final
door Isaac Rosa
29 leden
3 besprekingen
½ 3.4
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Time of Passage [short story]
door J. G. Ballard
3 leden
1 bespreking
½ 3.5