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NOTE 6 - the narrative text

narrative text - BRIEF

1) is a text of varying length (novel, short story, fable, fairy tale) in which action takes place:
- major and minor characters, protagonists and antagonists, which through many vicissitudes, to arrive at a solution life.

2) In the narrative text should be distinguished:
- Fabula (logical and chronological order of events)
- Woven (narrated events, "twisted" according to the author's taste)

3) Outline of a traditional narrative text:
- incipit
- conduct (adventures of the protagonists),
- Spannung / (moment of maximum tension),
- dissolution of tension
- epilogue.
(Warning: Svevo, Pirandello and, in general, the authors of the twentieth century subvert this scheme ...)

4) Each narrative takes place:
- at a time (real or invented) and
- in a space (real or invented, open or closed) as defined by the author.

5) time and space of the story does not always coincide with the time and space of the author (eg, science fiction novels, eg. The historical novel). The time and space of a story can remain the same (or almost) the whole story:
- novels set in one city, at a station on a ship, in a hotel room
- novels that tell a short summer vacation, a family Christmas, a day of life of the protagonist (Joyce's Ulysses), etc.
or can vary continuously:
- adventure novels
- travel stories
- novels that tell the whole existence of a character (Confessions of an Italian I. Nievo).
time the novel can be reversed, slowed, stopped and then taken through a series of technical devices, such as:
- flashback
- ellipses
- summary

6) The narrative text is composed of sequences (pieces of text ) of a different nature. Within a narrative macrotext (eg. Novel) there may be sequences:
- narrative
- reflective
- Descriptive
- Dialogue
- interior monologues
- streams of consciousness