Can there be written narratives (not movies or films, but books) without any narrator?
Would it be possible? It strikes me as impossible but I am still curious to know what you think.
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A story is a narrative - an account of connected events. Somebody is giving that account - there's no avoiding that. There you've got your narrator. Even a newspaper, which seeks to make the journalist impartial and transparent, there's still the person reporting on what happened, recounting it, narrating it. Even dialogue: the moment there's "Alice said", "Bob replied", it's the narrator telling you who said what.
Now, what happens if there's only the dialogue, no narration in between? Then you've got a play. To be fair, I've read significantly more plays than I've seen, but that doesn't turn a play into a novel.
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