Narrative identity: fiction and reality

Abstract

One of the key questions of narrative identity is the question of the relationship between narrative and reality. In the first place, in order to exclude that autobiography gets substituted with fantastic stories, it is necessary to determine its truth conditions. Then the ontological status of the protagonist of the narrative needs to be defined, as well as the conditions of its existence. In this paper, I argue that narrative approach implies anti-realism in relation to personality and, consequently, is incompatible with the assertion of its four-dimensionality.