A German word meaning 'narrator' or 'storyteller,' used in literary analysis to describe the voice telling a story.
From German 'erzählen' (to tell or narrate) + '-er' (agent suffix). Common in German literary criticism.
German literary theory borrowed 'erzähler' into English criticism because German scholars were pioneers in analyzing how narration actually works—studying the narrator's reliability and perspective changed how we read stories everywhere.
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