Vol. 1. Preface. Part I: The circle of narrative and temporality. 1. The aporias of the experience of time: book 11 of Augustine's Confessions. 2. Emplotment: a reading of Aristotle's Poetics. 3. Time and narrative: threefold Mimesis. Part II: History and narrative. 4. The eclipse of narrative. 5. Defenses of narrative. 6. Historical intentionality. Conclusions. Notes. Index. -- Vol. 2. Preface. Part III: The configuration of time in fictional narrative. 1. The metamorphoses of the plot. 2. The semiotic constraints on narrativity. 3. Games with time. 4. The fictive experience of time. Conclusion. Notes. Index. -- Vol. 3. Part IV: Narrated time. Introduction. Section 1: The aporetics of temporality. 1. The time of the soul and the time of the world: the dispute between Augustine and Aristotle. 2. Intuitive time or invisible time? Husserl confronts Kant. 3. Temporality. historicality, within-time-ness: Heidegger and the "ordinary" concept of time. Section 2: Poetics of narrative: history, fiction, time. 4. Between lived time and universal time: historical time. 5. Fiction and its imaginative variations on time. 6. The reality of the past. 7. The world of the text and the world of the reader. 8. The interweaving of history and fiction. 9. Should we renounce Hegel? 10. Towards a hermeneutics of historical consciousness. Conclusions. Notes. Bibliography. Index.