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

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