… Balzac had criticized the style of the Chartreuse and its too-linear construction, advising the author to eliminate everything that comes before Waterloo and sum it up in an analepsis …

— Gérard Genette , Paratexts: Thresholds of Interpretation , In the course of the prophetic vision Artabanus also weaves in a brief analepsis , the Persian defeat at Marathon, … thereby countering Mardonius’ falsely optimistic picture of the Greek enemy … — Irene De Jong , Texts, Ideas, and the Classics: Scholarship, Theory, and Classical Literature ,