RARA-AVIS: first person
Frederick Zackel (fzackel@bgnet.bgsu.edu)
Wed, 28 Jan 1998 10:44:44 -0500 (EST)
First person does take you inside the detective's head; it also
limits
when the reader can see. Which creates all sort of artifical
scenarios.
The detective at times seems more like a gymnast as he
discovers what has
been kept secret. Those gymnastics make parodies easy. If you
get a
chance to read Hammett's The Thin Man, see what the Master does
with first
person. The reader doesn't see everything in the detective's
mind.
Hammett uses a limited first person and is very successful at
it.
frederick zackel
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