Narration: On the Possibility of Historiographical Communication

Abstract

An interesting aspect of the narratological character of Slovene historiography derives from the supposedly unique sense in which historians unsentimentally and unimaginatively relate to the past (Simoniti 1995). On this view, a historian equipped with complete material evidence becomes a narrator who, as wordsmith, combines analysis and narration (Gay 1988). This view is not surprising, since past events, arranged on a time line, have an extra-literary basis that lends credibility to narration and analysis.