It is a wholly fluid narrative structure, one that allows Knausgaard to explore the nature of self and selfhood in light of both romantic and paternal love.
Yet with all the talent on show, when the New York Times pinpointed the film's main attraction it was the camera's "seamless, fluid narrative" it praised.
Mr. Prud'homme, Charles's grandson, talked Child into collaborating in 2003 and managed, by stitching together interviews and letters, to construct a coherent, fluid narrative, much of it edited by Child, that rings absolutely true to the sound of her voice.
But the political message is delivered with the lightest of touches - the story is the thing, and Bateman provides a complex yet fluid narrative concerning fake designer dresses, gangsters, and unlikey lovers.
There are rising and falling vamps and solos; a bit of rock and pastoral-sounding, post-Pat Metheny guitar harmony; some careful falsetto R&B; and, from Mr. Williams, fluid narrative improvising, as well as beats like fragmented hip-hop.
But Gilead, a book about fathers and sons, where Housekeeping was a book about girls and women, and fragmentary where one of Housekeeping's achievements was its fluid narrative completeness, takes an opposing narratorial position with a protagonist whose insider credentials could not be stronger.
Working with the editors T. Woody Richman and Mary Lampson, they have created an ingeniously fluid narrative structure that, when combined with Ms. Roberts's visuals, news material and their own original 16-millimeter film footage, ebbs and flows like great drama.
Last year, Snapchat took its first big iterative step with the launch of Stories, which let users string together all of their snaps from the latest 24 hours into a single, fluid narrative.
In Ashes, she experiments with time and space, the virtual and the real, stitching multiple scenes in the round, thereby creating an emotionally fluid narrative.
She also compares Angelou's "fluid narrative" to oral history, and states, "The kernels of insight and, yes, wisdom in this small volume will stay with the reader for a long time".
Lindsay's life seems to lack any kind of fluid narrative, instead resembling more a chain of unrelated and ludicrous events; community service at the morgue, a sleepover with Lady Gaga and Lana Del Rey at the Chateaux Marmont, a 36-name list of her sexual conquests left in a bar, a tweet that she's pregnant on April Fools' Day.
