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Q&A Can there be written narratives (not movies or films, but books) without any narrator?

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 journa...

posted 6y ago by Galastel‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by System‭

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#4: Attribution notice removed by user avatar System‭ · 2019-12-12T21:57:28Z (almost 5 years ago)
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#2: Initial revision by (deleted user) · 2019-12-08T09:57:58Z (almost 5 years ago)
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.

#1: Imported from external source by user avatar System‭ · 2018-10-14T17:47:42Z (about 6 years ago)
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