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Will check this out! Seems like the best audacious, ambitious books were written with an omniscient narrator, but a lot of today's literary fiction is written in first person. I get that editors and readers like an authentic voice, but it's limited in scope.

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The omniscience is definitely key to the ambition: to encapsulate the whole, by depicting the whole. An I-voice has existed forever, but the voice approximation is the constraint (a first-person vantage above all others). It can work, but itтАЩs just one tool of many.

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