silverandamericard t1_ja7ay1t wrote
It's not new; it's just something that you happen not to have come across before. It's a relatively commonplace technique, although technically tricky to pull off well, not least because each narrator needs to be interesting enough for the reader to spend time with. But books with multiple narrative viewpoints date back to at least The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins, published in 1859.
FlyingPasta t1_jabrxlh wrote
Another old example is Brothers Karamazov, although it was a tad later. Dostoyevsky is a bit less rigid with the POVs but they’re definitely distinct enough
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