ABSTRACT
This chapter will trace a complex of phenomena that have recently come to the attention of narratologists and which constitute a refinement of the realist technique while at the same time demolishing its realist bases. These phenomena centre on a number of crucial issuesÐcrucial, that is, in narratologyÐand therefore radicalize tensions endemic to the realist narrative text: the operations of voice and perspective; the linguistic establishment of the deictic centre and its evocation of consciousness and/or speaker personae; and, finally, the entire complex relating to the issues of mimesis and invented (fictive) orality.
