The Temple
A stranded WWI German submarine captain descends into madness after recovering a strange idol from the dead.
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Plot structure labels used: first person, journal form, nonlinear timeline, back-and-forth timeline, framed in hindsight, BC/AC structure, before-and-after structure, episodic movement, reveals title late, unreliable narrator
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