ABSTRACT
The story is presented in the text through the mediation of some ‘prism’, ‘perspective’, ‘angle of vision’, verbalized by the narrator though not necessarily his. Following Genette (1972), I call this mediation ‘focalization’. However, since Anglo-American readers are likely to associate ‘prism’, ‘perspective’, or ‘angle of vision’ with the more common term ‘point of view’, I shall begin by explaining why I substitute ‘focalization’ for it.
