That literary movement is known as modernism. Modernism came to be after WWI, as a response to both the war and the previous literary eras. It wanted to change everything we knew about literature, which is why it used many experimental techniques to wow the audience and make them think.
In order to write fictional narrative short story, you need to have a timeline so that you know when a celebrity achieved something. A timeline is also useful for other things like social studies.
