Arhitectura narativă în romanul antic târziu. „Etiopicele”
The narrative architecture in the ancient novel "Etiopics"

Summary/Abstract: This paper aims at an analysis of Heliodorus’ Aethiopica in the light of its intricate narrative technique. Visible from the novel’s introductory scene, the author’s use of internal focalization becomes a device intended to mislead the reader’s expectations, with a view to creating suspense and unexpected turns of situation. This is supplemented by narrators masterfully taking hold of relevant information and disclosing it when the plot is ready to support a recognition scene – most evidently, the main character’s recognition as heir of the Ethiopian royal couple, which stresses the tight connection between a compositional device and the problem of identity central to the novel.

• Details
• Contents