The Vacant Time of Narrating
Keywords:
narrative, letters, war, knowledge, storiesAbstract
It is usually admitted that a narrator gives an account of something he knows, that is, the events narrated not only preceded the narrative act, but also that their knowledge by the narrator precedes the narration. It is worth considering some examples that disrupt this chronology and challenge their obvious nature. For this purpose, the paper makes a previous brief consideration of the relationship between narrating and knowing, and it also offers illustrations of this disruption in excerpts of texts by Denis Diderot and Juan Carlos Onetti. With the same purpose in mind, there is a brief consideration of the profuse correspondence written by soldiers during the 1914 War, intimately related to their pointless time in the trenches.
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