Friday, November 11, 2022

A new word to me: prolepsis

From Wikipedia, about James Baldwin's Giovanni's Room:

After a year in Paris, penniless, he calls Jacques, an older homosexual acquaintance, to meet him for supper so he can ask for money. (In a prolepsis, Jacques and David meet again and discuss Giovanni's fall.) 

A prolepsis is a scene that temporarily takes the narrative forward in time from the current point of the story.




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