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On Narrators

Friday, December 7th, 2007

It’s been a long time since I’ve gotten up on my Pretentious English Major soapbox. But I just finished a book that I really, really, didn’t like, and I think it’s because of the narrator.
There are all kinds of narrators in fiction. You’ve got your third-person narrator, your first-person narrator, the omniscient narrator [...]

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