If man is narrative in his self-conception, with the telling of stories thus becoming possible in the first place, then every story must unavoidably contain the essence of the human condition. Our own biographical narrative, those of others, the possible stories, however we may come to know of them, combine to form a context. This connection to biographical narrativity determines that in our grasp of ourselves and our reality, we cannot avoid thinking in terms of possible stories, regardless of whether they eventually manifest themselves as fictional literature or not.įrom the possible stories, that is: literature, we can then form connections back to our biographical narrative. From within our own story, our biographical narrative, we derive the ability to conceive of other possible stories. narrative, is that which enables the existence of narrative literature in the first place. Who we are is imprinted in this narrativity: we grasp our lives in the form of biographical narratives. When we claim to be reliable, for example, we mean that we can tell of ourselves as agents in stories of reliability. These stories are often condensed to individual terms. When we are asked who we are, we always answer in stories.
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