Preface to the first edition -- Preface to the second edition -- Introduction -- Remarks and sources -- Test : words -- Preliminary remarks -- The narrator -- Non-narrative comments -- Description. Delimitation ; Motivation ; A rhetoric of description -- Level of narration. Intermediate forms : indirect speech and free indirect speech ; Relations between primary and embedded texts ; Embedded narrative texts ; Relations between primary fabula and embedded text ; Relations between primary fabula and embedded fabula ; An indication to the reader ; An indication to the actor ; Non-narrative embedded texts -- Remarks and sources -- Story : aspects. Preliminary remarks -- Sequential ordering. Direction : possibilities ; Nuances of anarchrony ; Distance : kinds ; Functions ; Span ; Anticipations ; Achrony -- Rhythm. Background ; General rhythm ; Ellipsis ; summary ; Scene ; Slow-down ; Pause -- Frequency -- From actors to characters. Problems ; Predictability ; Construction of contents ; Filling in the outline ; Sources of information ; The problem of the hero -- From place to space. Place and space ; Spatial aspects and perception ; Content and function ; Relations to other elements ; Information -- Focalization. Background ; Focalizor ; The focalized object ; Levels of focalization ; Suspense -- Visual stories. the point of a visual narratology ; Visual narratology in a nutshell ; Novel and film ; Vision in language -- Remarks and sources -- Fabula : elements. Preliminary remarks -- Events. Selection ; First criterion : change ; Second criterion : choice ; Third criterion : confrontation ; Relationships ; the narrative cycle ; Other principles of structure -- Actors. Selection ; Classes of actors ; Subject and object ; Power and receiver ; Helper and opponent ; Further specification ; Doubling ; Competence ; Truth value ; Other divisions into classes -- Time. duration : two kinds ; Motivation of this distinction ; Chronology : interruption and parallelism ; Logical sequence -- Location -- Remarks and sources -- Afterword : theses on the use of narratology for cultural analysis -- For those who wish to know more -- Appendix on quoted Dutch novelists.