![]() ![]() Time's Arrow, however, truly reverses chronology. Time's Arrow by Martin Amis In all these cases, the separate episodes run forwards. Similarly, the six main sections of Don DeLillo's Underworld take us back in steps from 1992 to 1951, while Harold Pinter's play Betrayal is a study of adultery whose succeeding scenes take us back over the course of some nine years. The breaks between these sections jolt us back in time to see the causes of consequences we have already observed. Sarah Waters's The Night Watch, for instance, is composed of three sections labelled, in turn, "1947", "1944" and "1941". ![]() Most narratives that run backwards do so in substantial sections of forward narrative. Photograph: Jane Bown Time's Arrow is not the first novel with a reverse chronology, but no other novel has reversed time so conscientiously. ![]()
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