Monday, September 18, 2006

First person narratives

Now... as example the following books...
  • Jane Eyre
  • PG Wodehouse's Jeeves series
  • The Time travellers wife
  • Memoirs of a Geisha
  • Catcher in the rye
  • The Eyre Affair
...these are all first person narratives.
Secondary characters strictly all speak through the main character.
Here's the question: Should they sound like it?
Now if you were making a movie of one of these books it would be more than a single character sitting in a room talking to the camera so my initial impulse was 'Hell No!'
A little reflection has tempered that to 'Largely No!' Audiobooks are a medium in their own right and have their own artistic code.
More on this tomorrow but for now ta-ta

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