Keywords

• This article proposes a bridge between an early and a late work of Gérard Genette
• namely his article Frontières du récit and his collection of essays Fiction et diction. In Frontières du récit
• Genette points at two instances of â€
• œ
• anti-narrativeâ€
• 
• intrusion into narrative. The first is what Emile Benveniste called â€
• œ
• discourse
• â€
• 
• meaning the self-reflexive comments of the narrator
• and the second is description
• a mode of utterance that when found in a narrative
• temporarily withholds the flow of the story. In the context of the proliferation of these instances in current narrative films and in the light of Genetteâ€
• ™
• s observations in Fiction et diction
• I will suggest that these anti-narrative elements provide us with a chance to fundamentally reconsider the notion of narrative and to configure a paradigm shift in narratology
• which Genette had already foreseen in his early work