| Summary: | This article is an inquiry into the analysis of textual actuality via the possibilities of plot
developments represented in actions and events. The topic of possible worlds is extremely important
in narrative theories, particularly in those influenced by such a branch of modern logic as the
possible world semantics. Scrutinizing approaches toward the narrative analysis and applying an
array of methods to cinematographic piece, this paper circles around linguistics, narrative theories
and cinema studies. The article mainly centers on the nature of narrative discourse and ways in
which it might be brought down, getting Greimassean narrative grammar, Bremond’s narrative
sequences, and Ryan’s classification of textual universes together. The cinematographic
masterpiece The Criminal Life of Archibaldo de la Cruze directed by Luis Buñuel is used to apply
methods of narrative analysis of three authors. Here lies the actuality of this article and its relevance
to the academic studies of narrativity, not to mention non-academic probing into contemporary art:
methods of structural and literary possible world analysis of narratives sketched in this paper might
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be exercised in interpreting not only texts of classical literature along with postmodern writings but
also works of popular visual culture, such as cinema.
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