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Amosaic novel is a novel in which individual chapters or short stories share a common setting or set of characters with the aim of telling a linear story from beginning to end, with the individual chapters, however, refracting a plurality of viewpoints and styles.[1]
Examples include theWild Cards series begun byGeorge R. R. Martin, and theThieves' World series ofRobert Lynn Asprin and others, which overtly used and may have coined the term "mosaic novel" for this practice of sharing a world and vision amongst several authors.
French authorAlfred Boudry often leads groups of English- and French-speaking writers in creating multiple narratives set in a common predetermined background.La Bibliothèque nomédienne was the first to be published (in 2008), dealing about a "misplaced continent" called Nomedia. From 2009 to 2013, he and four other writers createdLes Vicariants, a mosaic novel due to become a multimedia novel.
Cadwell Turnbull'sThe Lesson is a modern example of the mosaic novel.
The Moonstone byWilkie Collins is a very early example.William Faulkner'sAs I Lay Dying andNaguib Mahfouz'sMiramar also follow the paradigm of telling a single, linear story through multiple perspectives.
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