"I have elaborated the scene of dream interpretation by folding the dreams into a further narrative layer," he writes, explaining a passage of translation in which the patriarch Isaac dreams that he has a child by a kind of she-demon and the matriarch Rebecca cuts up the infant and serves her for dinner.
One narrative layer is epistolary: a character named Nina writes letters to an elephant made of crushed tinfoil, a figure named alternately Winky and Blinky.
But as usual, there was another narrative layer at work here" involving a grieving Olivia.
This "further narrative layer" has passages of dialogue right out of a bad screenplay: "As Rebecca put down her fork, her brows were knit.
Agnihotri creates a poignant, intense narrative layered with an awareness of the pressures of motherhood and personal love.
This added narrative layer lends depth and poignancy to what would otherwise be an informative but fairly standard end-of-tour report filed by a skilled foreign correspondent.
The metaphors in the Barometer have an empirical foundation upon which narrative layers are built [17, 27].
A narrative built of layers and layers of disorientation is not new for Auster -- this is, in fact, his specialty.
When I am sad, feeling my temperament unsuited to the brightness of summer sun, fiction allows me to lose myself in its kaleidoscopic narrative layers, to escape the recesses of my own logic.
From Tony's Dead Calm-ish discovery of what was in the dark depths of the yacht belonging to Ian Garrett (Ken Stott), to the framing of the episode from the perspective of Garrett's wife Mary Diana Quickk), there were multiple narrative layers on display.
There's no plan per se when he starts, yet the metaphorical schemes which emerge are fraught with such cultural significance and narrative layers that they fairly beg to be deciphered and decoded.
