| 1 | Fabula and sujet are terms from [[LitClassTropes literary theory]] used to explain the difference between a story and its {{Plot}}. Fabula is the chronological order of events, while sujet is the order events are told in. In most stories, these match up pretty closely, but this does not necessarily have to be the case. They're from Russian Formalism, not French: it's pronounced "Sue Jet" (Rus: Фабула и Сюжет). Take, for example, the film ''Film/{{Memento}}'', where half the story is told BackToFront interspersed with segments told front to back. Or look at [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Memento_Timeline.png this graph of fabula vs. sujet in ''Memento.'']] Complicated, huh? {{Postmodern}}ists love this, but the idea itself [[OlderThanFeudalism dates back to]] Creator/{{Aristotle}}. |
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| 3 | If the fabula is very different from the sujet, the story is probably more about figuring out how the plot fits together than the plot itself, which can leave the plot, once figured out, kind of weak. This is part of why some people hate TimeTravel stories. |
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| 5 | !!Fabula and Sujet Tropes: |
| 6 | [[index]] |
| 7 | * AnachronicOrder |
| 8 | * BackToFront |
| 9 | * {{Flashback}} |
| 10 | ** FlashbackBPlot |
| 11 | * InMediasRes |
| 12 | * {{Interquel}} |
| 13 | * PostAdventureAdventure, for stories that have a plot that precedes them. |
| 14 | * RealTime, for when there is absolutely no difference between the two. |
| 15 | * SequencingDeception, when differences between sujet and fabula are hidden from the audience for a surprise. |
| 16 | * SimultaneousArcs |
| 17 | [[/index]] |
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