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Introduction
Thenon-mediatedcommunicationpatternofthedramatictextisin-
herentlyassociatedwithso-calledHscenicpresentation”[Pfister1988:
204].Thisissobecausetheabove-mentionedHabsoluteautonomy”
correlateswithdrama’stimeandspaceproperty-present.Theevents
indramatictextsareconstructedinsuchawayastogiveanimpres-
sionoftakingplaceintheHalwayspresent,”asThorntonWilderasserts
[qtd.inPfister1988:275].Importantly,thepresent-nessreferstothetime
ofreceptionandnotofevents,whichmaybepastorpresentorfuture,
claimsJerzyLimon[2003:6],andattributesthistemporaldistinctionto
theHtemporalrupture”(rozdarcietemporalne)betweentheatre’sfiction
andreality[2003:21].Thistermisalsoindicativeofdrama’spresentas
evokedbythereceiver’spresentwhereasthetimeoffictionalrealityis
mostoftenpast.Hencethefundamentaldistinctionbetweendramaand
narrativeistypicallyfoundedonthetemporalpositioning:presentin
dramaandpastinnarrative.Inaddition,Hthevariabilityofthesetwo
deicticsystemsofreference[timeandspace-B.L.]allowsallsortsof
arbitraryrearrangementoftime-spacerelationshipstobemade,espe-
ciallyinthechronologyofthenarrative,andtheextensionorrestriction
oflocale”whereasHtheinvariablecontinuityandhomogeneityoftime
andspacewithinthechosenscenicunitisaconditionofthemediumof
drama,andthus,finally,ofthedramaticcommunicationmodel”[Pfister
1988:5].15Thecontinuityandhomogeneitybespeaksthetime-honoured
andpseudo-clacissistdogmaofthreeunitiesindrama[Głowiński,Oko-
pień-Sławińska,Sławiński1975:398].
Drama’ssuccessionofscenesisreproducedinGombrowicz’sand
Beckett’snovelsduetothefactthat,especiallyintheIrishman’snovels,
thereis,toquotefromPfister,theHtheinvariablecontinuityandhomoge-
neityoftimeandspace,”whichsuggests,asIconcludeinmyinvestiga-
tions,aconstitutionofHscenicunits,”orscenicstructureingeneral,in
thenovels.Theyemployembedding,orthestory-within-storyconven-
tion,inwhichthenarratedstoryisproduced(quoted)by/inthenarrat-
ing.Asaresult,thesceneofthepresent-tenseprimary-levelnarrative
necessitatesthatanysecondary-levelnarrativesbeembeddedinthesce-
nicmomentoftheproduction(quotation);theyarealsoscenes.Inshort,
thespatiotemporalpropertiesoftheframeimplyanidenticalposition-
ingoftheframednarrative.Theidentity,andconsequentconstitutionof
concurrentnarration,canbeobservedbothformallyandtextually.The
narratorsintheembeddedstorysabotageontologicaldifferencebetween
