An Introduction to the Structural Analysis of Narrative
@article{Barthes1966AnIT,
title={An Introduction to the Structural Analysis of Narrative},
author={R. Barthes and Lionel Duisit},
journal={New Literary History},
year={1966},
volume={6},
pages={237}
}of all, there is a prodigious variety of genres, each of which branches out into a variety of media, as if all substances could be relied upon to accommodate man's stories. Among the vehicles of narrative are articulated language, whether oral or written, pictures, still or moving, gestures, and an ordered mixture of all those substances; narrative is present in myth, legend, fables, tales, short stories, epics, history, tragedy, drame [suspense drama], comedy, pantomime, paintings (in Santa… Expand
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69 Here again, specifications according to substance must be anticipated: literature has an unmatched potential for ellipsis-which the movie lacks
- Val&ry's terms
Rarely has fiction (or narrative) so clearly revealed what it always is, by necessity: an experiment of 'thought' on 'life
Such a reduction does not necessarily correspond to the division of the book into chapters; on the contrary, chapters seem to assume more and more a disjunctive role, setting up break-off points