ABSTRACT
Narration is about how the reader gets to learn about the described events, and therefore it should be seen as an indelible part of what constitutes narrativity. Narrativity depends both on a causally experienced chain of events and on an equally important understanding of why this particular causal explanation serves to unify them. Written in 1981, the novella Chronicle of a Death Foretold by Gabriel Garcia Marquez is a highly ambiguous and masterfully told tale which defies classification and has remained somewhat of a puzzle for readers and critics alike. At first sight, it appears to be a murder story: the author-narrator returns to his home town to record the testimony of numerous witnesses about the murder of his friend that has taken place twenty-seven years previously. To sum up, Chronicle offers a somewhat unusual narrative strategy in which the enaction process the narration initiates for the reader is meant to deceive rather than convince and explain.
