Because we’re not expecting it, because the diptych hasn’t yet become a tired form in narrative, I think the diptych challenges and transforms traditional narrative, that is, story built around the arc of beginning, middle, and end.
For The American Reader, Eric Dean Wilson traces the history and sings the praises of the diptych, or the two-piece story.
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