For it does not proceed by narrative so much as digression, detail, sudden glimpse and brief dialogue.
I have a little joke about this at the beginning of the Varanasi section where I say that the normal way of proceeding would lend narrative continuity — "albeit of a not very novel kind" — to the book.
Formally, they specialised in stream-of-consciousness monologues (Figes's Nelly's Version ), holes cut in the page to make the reader aware of both present and future time (Johnson's Albert Angelo ), disembodied talking heads (Josipovici), or narratives proceeding on both left- and right-hand sides of the page that could be read separately or consecutively (Rayner Heppenstall's Two Moons ).
Nevertheless, Bajrangi Bhaijaan proceeds with a narrative that proves both self-reflexive and highly emotive.
So, with the hope that the following pages will accomplish some good and instruction for its readers, I shall proceed with my narrative.
Because Hemon, who witnessed the wilful ruination of his famously civilised hometown, knows that life doesn't proceed in straight narrative lines.
Fritz Lanham of the Houston Chronicle felt that book was too long and that the narrative proceeded at too slow a pace.
In writing, the same is achieved if the narrative proceeds along the stem species of the focal species.
And it's clearly a female-crafted metaphor, proceeding not with a clear narrative urgency, as straight as a die to the irreducible explosion, but rather, with mis-starts and damp squibs and dance routines that don't go right because both people weren't doing the right thing at the right time and didn't have the right feelings for each other.
His narratives proceed through eddying internal monologues interspersed with dense conversational passages.
