>I suspect that in general audio books would work
better
>from the first-person viewpoint.
Not always. A couple of mine have gone into audiobook, with a
woman reader of course. She's ok when she's Dido Hoare, but
when she reads dialogue "she do voices". The real life role
model for Ernie Weekes
(no, I don't usually do this, it's a family joke) has refused
to allow his mother to listen to the tapes. As for
Barnabas....
I too am very doubtful that there is anything specifically
hard-boiled
(or not) about the point of view. First person maybe allows a
more intimate insight into a character, but the truth it
voices is obviously only objective about the character's own
limited vision with any resulting errors. It expresses
character, it doesn't form it. Third person can provide
either an objective view of the personality of the
protagonist, or a limited insight (hello, Dr Watson), or
stick very intensely to the experience of the main character
in a book or a section of a book: D Sayers and J Ellroy, for
instance? (Now that coupling I just couldn't resist. I may be
hysterical.)
MM
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