This book is a standard work for modern narrative theory. It provides a terminological and
theoretical system of reference for future research. The author explains and discusses in
detail problems of communication structure and entities of a narrative work point of view the
relationship between narrator's text and character's text narrativity and eventfulness and
narrative transformations of happenings. The book outlines a theory of narration and analyses
central narratological categories such as fiction mimesis author reader narrator etc. A
detailed bibliography and glossary of narratological terms make this book a compendium of
narrative theory which is of relevance for scholars and students of all literary disciplines.
