Title:
THE FUNCTION OF SIMULTANEOUS NARRATION IN GREEK LITERATURE FOR ADOLESCENTS

Authors:
Spyros Kiosses

Abstract:
A fundamental aspect of narration, one that has obvious implications in the construction of meaning, the reception of the text and the composition of interpretation, on the part of the reader, is the manipulation of narrative time. The paper examines the use of the so-called simultaneous narration in selected Greek literary works for adolescents. Particular emphasis is laid on homodiegetic narrative texts, in which the story unfolds during its very narration. In these texts, the temporal distance between the narration and the story vanishes, projecting the impression of complete identification between the narrating and the experiential self. The aim of the paper is to study the function of the above narrative choice in the frame of plot development and character presentation, as well as its probable impact on the building of interpretations by young readers, despite the, apparently, problematic nature, as far as the narrative logic is concerned.