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Definitions: [link], or TL;DR: Fabula is the linear timeline of events in the story's universe. Syuzhet is the not
necessarily linear timeline of events presented to the reader. The movie Memento is a great example of
disconnected fabula and syuzhet used to great effect.
For the purpose of studying
the use of syuzhet in human-written novels for application to fiction generation, I
would like to be able to have graphs (like the one in the Wikipedia article) of fabula as a function of syuzhet or
vice versa for a great many well-known novels. However, I imagine it would be very tedious to do this (reading
very slowly while taking copious notes about what moments in the story's timeline are described on which
pages), so I propose to do it by crowdsourcing.
Imagine an ebook reader app where everyone reading a given book has access to shared fabula and syuzhet
timelines, and can easily make a note of a correlation between the two at any point while they're reading the
book. The timelines show points other readers have already connected, so each reader can do just a few to fill
in a few gaps and confirm existing connections. That means each reader only has to do a few per book, so it's
not onerous.
How to convince the readers to do this? Give them credit toward future book purchases for each connection they
make that's corroborated by other readers.
Fabula and Syuzhet
https://en.wikipedi.../Fabula_and_syuzhet I forgot to actually add this link until long after I posted the idea :/ [notexactly, Nov 09 2015]
crepes suzette
https://en.wikipedi.../Cr%C3%AApe_Suzette Yum and French [popbottle, Nov 12 2015]
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Cheers for the explanation. I like the idea for the possibility of finding depictions of contemporaneous time across disparate works, no matter how jumbled. Patterns in the jumbles might just reveal first causes too... |
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A Clockwork Orange ? Or do you mean something like a record album, where the track order tells a meta story. |
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I think your forgetting movies are getting dumber, meaning any novels are getting equally pointless and unimaginative. |
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[travbm], how could you possibly know that without having
done a survey such as the one I suggest? |
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"Jane had lunch. Dick waited all day". How would you graph that? Dick's day starts before Jane's lunch and finishes after it. |
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Also, what would you do about pluperfects? |
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And are you after a Cartesian Diagram type of graph, or a Koenigsburg Bridges type of graph? |
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'Course we could always use a Moëbius graph. |
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Consider cliodynamics, Big History, and the idea of eternal/historical recurrence. History repeats itself, and linear time (fabula) turns out to be a big circle...but how (syuzhet)?! |
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The Möebius diagram could help. |
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New word for me this time. Also cliometrics. Interesting
stuff! |
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