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What is the earliest use of flashback in Western literature?

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what is the earliest use of flashback in western literature

The earliest use of flashback in Western literature was in Homer’s Odyssey.

Most of Odysseus’s adventures are recounted in a flashback set within a larger narrative frame.

Odysseus tells his story at the court of the Phaeacians.

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