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.
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.
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.
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.
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.