Bagatelle (literary technique)

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A bagatelle is a game-like literary tool used in fiction. The author empowers a character or object beyond natural or expected abilities (i.e. of comprehension, awareness, memory, etc.) so that it may carry a point across to the reader more transparently. A bagatelle creates a more direct communication between author and reader than common in fiction; it is the equivalent of a wink. Jostein Gaarder, the Norwegian author of the popular summary of Western philosophical history Sophie's World (English: Berkley, New York, 1996), uses the tool openly and humorously in that work.

 

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