Given that the character Juan Preciado is seen by all critics as the fictional narrator – i.

I shall explain why I selected this work in the first part of the article and summarize the reasons for this choice at the beginning of the second.

The text I selected to this end is Juan Rulfo's novel, Pedro Páramo (1955), which I shall examine in Spanish and in its English translation by Margaret Sayers Peden (1994). In this paper, I shall test communicational and non-communicational or poetic theories of the fictional narrative against an empirical micro-reading. Is there a narrator in all fictional narratives or only in some of them (implying that some narratives may be considered ›narratorless‹)? This is a controversial issue for ›communicational theories‹ which claim that communication between a narrator and a narratee is central to the definition of the narrative, and ›non-communicational‹ theories – or ›poetic‹ theories – of the fictional narrative which consider that a fictional narrative, or a certain kind of fictional narrative, and communication are mutually exclusive.

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