Author: Gérard Genette

Publisher: Cornell University Press

Published: 1980

Total Pages: 292

ISBN-13: 9780801492594

Genette uses Proust's Remembrance of Things Past as a work to identify and name the basic constituents and techniques of narrative. Genette illustrates the examples by referring to other literary works. His systemic theory of narrative deals with the structure of fiction, including fictional devices that go unnoticed and whose implications fulfill the Western narrative tradition.