Abstract: The article sketches out an autopsy of the narrative act, which is neither a mere transliteration of facts carried out by a neutral reporter, nor the idiolect of a biased translation, but a diegetic mediation. It considers the possible independence of the agents in which the travel narrative originates (the triad Author/Narrator/Traveller), before analyzing a complex cohabitation of agents who all participate in the effectuation of the narrative act.
