Posted by alan truelove on May 18, 2004 at 16:17:48 from 66.239.159.18 user atruelove.
In Reply to: Narrator in the first person posted by Jeremy Kriewaldt on May 18, 2004 at 07:01:24:
(Sorry this got stuck in the wrong thread)
Pretty certain this is the only such example (in the text, as opposed to dedications etc), as I remember noticing it 60 years ago (!)
As some of us were discussing Margaret Drabble, she makes a great deal of use of this (esp in her later novels), discussing where the plot and characterization should go (I'll bet there is a LitCrit term for this, perhaps MetaNovel..) .. I didnt realize this was a Russian trend --