Burr (novel) - Narrative Frame

Narrative Frame

Vidal presents Burr's stories of the immediate post-Independence period more or less sequentially, but severally, as they are dictated to (and revised by) Charlie Schuyler, through the main section of the novel, called 1834, thus:

• Chapter Ten : Memoirs of Aaron Burr--One
• Chapter Eleven : Memoirs of Aaron Burr--Two
• Chapter Twelve : Memoirs of Aaron Burr--Three, Memoirs of Aaron Burr--Four
• Chapter Thirteen : Memoirs of Aaron Burr--Five
• Chapter Fourteen : Memoirs of Aaron Burr--Six
• Chapter Fifteen : Memoirs of Aaron Burr--Seven
• Chapter Eighteen : Memoirs of Aaron Burr--Eight, Memoirs of Aaron Burr--Nine
• Chapter Nineteen : Memoirs of Aaron Burr--Ten
• Chapter Twenty : Memoirs of Aaron Burr--Eleven
• Chapter Twenty-one : Memoirs of Aaron Burr--Twelve
• Chapter Twenty-five : Memoirs of Aaron Burr--Thirteen
• Chapter Twenty-seven : Memoirs of Aaron Burr--Fourteen
• Chapter Twenty-eight : Memoirs of Aaron Burr--Fifteen
• Chapter Thity-two : Memoirs of Aaron Burr--Sixteen
• Chapter Thirty-four : Memoirs of Aaron Burr--Seventeen
• Chapter Thirty-six : Memoirs of Aaron Burr--Eighteen

Three parts follow in 1835:

• Chapter Two : Memoirs of Aaron Burr--Nineteen
• Chapter Five : Memoirs of Aaron Burr--Twenty
• Chapter Seven : Memoirs of Aaron Burr--Twenty-one