Defining Narrator Types

In the gender narrative fictional facts are told. These types of texts are normally novels or stories, but also legends, fables or epics, among others. In any case, the events that are presented are related by a narrator. It should be noted that the figure of the narrator should not be confused with the Author of text.

In this sense, the authors create the figure of a transmitter fictitious that is counting the events and is properly the narrator of the text.

Distinguishing the narrator classes

- If the narrator is part of the story that is told or directly intervenes in the course of events, the It is about a homodiegetic narrator (homo means equal and diegetic comes from diegesis in Greek, which means story). This type of narrator can present variants. Sometimes he is the protagonist of the story, but he can also be a simple witness or a secondary character.

-If he is a main storyteller, he will usually tell his own story in the first person.

- The witness narrator takes on the role of a mere spectator who observes the unfolding of events and usually tells the story in the first person.

-The character narrator is not the center of the action that he recounts, but is part of it.

- If the narrator has no relationship with the story and he tells the events from the outside, he is a heterodiegetic narrator. This narrative figure usually tells the facts in the third person grammar. There are two types of heterodiegetic narrator:

A) ommissive or

B) of relative or objective knowledge of the facts.

The first is someone who knows absolutely everything that happens in the narrated story, even the thoughts and emotions Of the characters. The second narrator describes the concrete actions and does not communicate the thoughts or feelings Of the characters.

- The figure of the narrator in the second person grammatical is the least common. Who tells the story addresses a interlocutor, for example to the reader. This narrative resource is usually used in blogs or in the epistolary genre.

The narrator is somehow an invisible character in fiction

Regardless of the types of narrator that exist, the figure of the narrator of a story becomes another character. The author of a novel invents a storyteller, who becomes a fictional author of the novel itself. Although the reader may not perceive it directly, he is communicating with the narrator who is telling him a story.

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