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The earliest confirmed example I have thus far is a story by Raymond Queneau, called "A Story as You Like It", published in 1967. Queneau was a experimental author who spent some time hanging out with the French surrealists. A translated version the story is here: http://www.thing.de/projekte/7:9%23/queneau_1.html and a cool graph of the structure of the story is here: http://www.e-critures.org/_PER/conte0.html