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ABSTRACT. This paper is dedicated to a systematic presentation of the narrative category of person, with a focus on first-person narrative. Since Booth’s narratological “Bible”, narrative theorists have come far in their understanding of the category of ‘person’, which had, for a long time, remained surprisingly underworked, as if it had not been worthy of a more sustained analysis. Since the primary aim of this study is to offer a comprehensive analysis of autodiegetic/ homodiegetic narration, the narratological framework offered here provides a systematic survey of the various approaches to first-person narrative, and a list of the narratorial instances identified by Norman Friedman, Franz Stanzel, Lubomir Doležel, Boris Uspenski, Jaap Lintvelt and Käte Hamburger.

Keywords: first-person narrative, homodiegetic narration, autodiegetic narration, telling versus showing.