Usability Views Article Details  home | timeline | recent | popular | e-reports | userati | about this site Doing without the Narrator in Artifactual Fiction (22 May 2003) In artifactual fiction, this narrator has been removed: more exactly, such fiction deliberately replaces the single-voice narrator with many narrators, who often compete with and contradict each other. By "artifactual" I mean fiction made up not of simple narration but of objects, each of which has a story (it could be a document, but could as well be a photograph, a map, a song). The object may tell its story itself (as would happen with, say, a journal entry), or the object may have to be "read" -- analyzed, dissected, contemplated, then related to other artifacts in the vicinity -- before its significance can become clear, its story understood. Article URL: http://tekka.net/02/?Artifact Read 53 more articles from Tekka sorted by date, popularity, or title. Next Article: E-mail vs Letter This site is a labour of love built by Chris McEvoy