Sylvia Patron examines the close association, which goes as far as identification, between narratology and the theory of the existence of a narrator in all narratives. This Intervention is the first translation of Patron's article, “Science et nescience: la narratologie mise à nu. Le cas du narrateur,” which develops some of the central arguments from her books.

At the end of a work of fiction, the ideal reader knows as much as the author. How could it be otherwise? There is nothing else to know.This means that the end of the work is the end of omniscience.