[lit-ideas] Re: nameless celebrities?
- From: Judy Evans <judithevans001@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 1 Mar 2005 01:04:35 +0000
Tuesday, March 1, 2005, 12:21:45 AM, Eric Yost wrote:
EY> Judy wrote: you seem to be the world authority on unnamed persons!
EY> There are undoubtedly billions of silent or unnamed people who know more
EY> than I do about unnamed narrators. They have probably been busy with
EY> other things today.
probably gathering unnamed narrators (or other unnamed characters)...
EY> It is worth bringing up (what Henry James referred to as) "central
EY> intelligence," where the narrator is omniscient with respect to the
EY> overall external fictional situation, but is internally omniscient with
EY> respect to the consciousness of one particular character.
EY> This is almost like having an unnamed narrator, in that the central
EY> intelligence of the novel is directly related to character X but not the
EY> same as X, and so could be X's identical twin narrating from the
EY> distance of years.
EY> Someone who knows all the external events of a fiction and also the
EY> intimate thoughts of one character is almost like a character, a
EY> busybody friend of the family.
EY> So maybe all novels that use this narrative technique could be
EY> considered to employ an unnamed central character as narrator?
I'm not sure -- interesting --
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