Narrative point of view

In a text, to give the statute of the Narrator, it is to put the question: " Who tells the history? ". One should not confuse statute of the narrator and narrative point of view. The narrative point of view corresponds to the focusing of the account, it answers the questions: " Who describes? By which eye see us to them scenes? "

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Statute of the narrator

The narrator can adopt two statutes:

a statute absent
a statute present

The statute absent is characterized by the employment of the 3rd person, it implies a narrator external with the history. One distinguishes two types of statute absent:

the statute absent neutral ; the narrator is external with the history and do not make any personal comment during its narration;
the statute absent implied ; the narrator is external with the history but intervenes during the account by personal comments.

The statute present is characterized by the employment of the 1st person, it implies an internal narrator character with the history.

Narrative point of view

There exist three narrative points of view:

the omniscient point of view of : the narrator knows all the characters and can see all their actions. He knows their past, their future and their thoughts. This point of view returns to a narrator absent implied ;
the point of view of intern : the narrator is a character of the account. This point of view returns to a narrator present
the external point of view of : the narrator is then a simple witness who does not know anything the characters (is opposed to the omniscient point of view). The external point of view of returns to a narrator absent neutral

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