JKR's narrative strategy (Was: Whose point of view ?)
theadimail
theadimail at yahoo.co.in
Thu Jul 22 05:57:16 UTC 2004
No: HPFGUIDX 107232
carol wrote:
Anyway, the point is simply that the narrator is not the author, and
JKR, as author, has chosen to limit her narrator's omniscience.
adi writes:
I know I might be hairsplitting about something quite off-topic
but I would like to take your argument further. If the narrator is
indeed different from the author, wouldn't it raise the question of
who it is? In fact, it is not anyone we know from the canon, not any
single character, so who is this narrator who can presume to know so
much about these characters and then tell us exactly in the form
he/she wants? And what can his designs be, if he can indeed block and
allow us into minds as he/she pleases? You see, you are inventing a
fictitious narrator, giving life to the third person vein that the
books are told from. I don't think the narrator at least in this case
is different from the author.
Adi, who thanks Carol for her lengthy and meticulous answers.
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