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Summer M
10-20-2012, 02:46 AM
Can you provide examples of modern (past 50 years) novels that use the stream of consciousness, multiple narrator technique that Faulkner used in As I lay Dying?

{EDIT} While we're at it, can you name novels that use the technique of two (or more) stories braided together until they mesh into one that Rushdie used in The Satanic Verses?

Seasider
10-21-2012, 06:33 PM
I haven't read it but I understand from the reviews that Will Self's latest novel and Booker Prize contestant "Umbrella" uses the technique referred to as stream of consciousness".

kev67
10-21-2012, 07:41 PM
What is stream of consciousness? Would Trainspotting by Irvine Walsh count? It has multiple narrators from what I remember, or at least it had a different narrator each chapter. A book with two stories that eventually came together was Ian M. Banks' Inversions, which despite being one of his sci-fi books is not very futuristic. Umberto Eco's The Island of the Day Before had three strands (iirc), but annoyingly, they never really came together.

Kafka's Crow
10-21-2012, 09:00 PM
My Name is Red (by Orhan Pamuk) has many different narrators who, interestingly enough, introduce themselves by name whenever the narrative is shifted to them (as depicted in the title).