Les estructures elementals de la narrativa

This book does not explain how a story is written; this book explains how to write all the great stories that have been written that will never be written, and why they have captivated millions and millions of readers. It is a statement as resounding as it is true. And why read this book? For sure, for two reasons. First, so that those who begin to write do not have to go through the same torment that the author of such popular novels as Victus or The Cold Skin had to suffer in the beginning. And second, and most important, because readers of The Elementary Structures of Narrative will enjoy reading, movies, and TV series twice as much. Why do we like good stories so much? How are they imagined and created from scratch? How is an argument developed? How is a plot articulated correctly? How does a story have to start and end in order to be successful? These are key questions, because, contrary to the more widespread perception 'that considers stories as a leisure tool without transcendence', the fact is that without narrative we would die. Stories do not make us better people, but play a higher role: they make us people. Think about your childhood and the texts that told you what the world was like. Or in dreams: the narrative fact is such a powerful drive that every night... we tell stories to ourselves! That is why, on the back of anthropology and starting from very diverse examples 'of the stories of the African mbuti in Kafka's The Metamorphosis, from Melville's Moby Dick to Spielberg's Shark, from Don Quixote to Game of Thrones, among others' , The elementary structures of the narrative reveal with ingenuity and amenity the secret of all the stories that, in the words of the author, "make this world, abysmal horror, a bearable place".