Što (sve) znaju pripovjedači?
What do the narrators know?

Summary/Abstract: In this paper the author provides arguments against the representatives of the communication theory of the narrative (Gérard Genette, Mieke Bal, Seymour Chatman etc.) who assume that the narrator is inherent to every narrative text. The author claims that the narrator is constituted only in those narrative texts that comprise distinctive subjectivizational characteristics. He also questions the assumption of the a priori accepted knowledge of the narrator since it blurs the differentiation of the narrative texts that function in different ways. The act of narration is, according to the author, primarily the act of formation of the fictional world, and not the act of its mediation. Mediation belongs only to the specific type of a narrative text. Also, the author does not consider the knowledge of the narrator to be his imperative attribute and claims that this characteristic is specific only for the type of the narrator who narrates »as if« he is acquainted with the story that he is telling. The assumption of the a priori knowledge of the narrator also blurs the differences among focalized narrative texts.

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