VOL. 61, BOOK 1, PART C, 2023, pp. 198 – 209 Full text (Bg)
Author: Petya Petkova-Staleva
Affiliation: New Bulgarian University
Abstract
With The Decameron, Giovanni Boccaccio sets a pattern for arranging the novellas in a narrative framework with a narrative company that remains outside the narrated novellas. Both the narrating companies and the author-narrator’s place in the text and in relation to them change over time. Some collections do not follow this pattern, and the image of the author-narrator is the main unifying factor: he is often an actor or witness in the short stories themselves, and the narrating company becomes part of the narrative. Regardless of the chosen structure, the works are based on the dynamic relationship between oral and written narration.
Key words: short story, collections, narrative frame, narrator
