ABSTRACT
In this chapter I wish to treat some of the most radical features of postmodernist texts in so far as they relate to the reader's visualizing of a story (plot) situation and/or a storytelling situation. In Chapter 61 concentrated on the apparently formal or grammatical devices of pronominal usage and tense to illustrate how, in the process of interpretation, frames override microtextual oddities and allow a narrativization in terms of a second-person protagonist or in terms of quasi-simultaneous narration. Logical oddity or inconsistency of this sort ceases to be worrisome when the text can be read as a series of events, a story, or when it may be explained as the skewed vision of a ruling consciousness, that of a teller or that of a reflective or `registering' mind. These reading processes which manufacture sense out of apparent nonsense are observed to apply even more radically when experimentation touches the core of narrative: the establishment of a fictional situation and/or the very language of storytelling. Narrativization is sorely tested at such points.
