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Narrative Indeterminacy and Logical Inconsistency in The Step Not Beyond

Narrative consistency is based on development. The reader assumes there will be a given progression between textual events. From this progression develops the fictional construct. In Maurice Blanchot’s fiction, the author does everything possible to undermine the expectations of the reader in constructing a fictional universe. There are several aspects to this disruption. The first aspect is temporal. Narrative expectations, which are based on memory, refer to previous allusions to a given plot line in the text. This is called prefiguration from the point of view of the past, and anticipation from that of the future. The present does not exist from a fictional point of view, because it is the time mode of the real, generally opposed to the fictional. It is now largely accepted that the narrator may insert in the text any material from his or her own temporal past, whether conscious, subconscious or actual. Thus the insertion of dream sequences is part of a film script, and the viewer automatically interprets this sequence as deriving from the script writer’s own psychological past. It is assumed that the present is not involved, because for the necessary control of the raw material of the dialogue and cinematographic sequences, a certain temporal distance is required.