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Many works (of both fiction and non-fiction)span multiple, intersecting narratives, each ofwhich constitutes a story in its own right. Inthis work I introduce the task of multiple nar-rative disentanglement (MND), in which theaim is to tease these narratives apart by assign-ing passages from a text to the sub-narrativesto which they belong. The motivating exam-ple I use is David Foster Wallace’s fictionaltext Infinite Jest. I selected this book becauseit contains multiple, interweaving narrativeswithin its sprawling 1,000-plus pages. I pro-pose and evaluate a novel unsupervised ap-proach to MND that is motivated by the theoryof narratology. This method achieves strongempirical results, successfully disentanglingthe threads in Infinite Jest and significantlyoutperforming baseline strategies in doing so.