Posted by Peter Ceresole on May 19, 2004 at 17:35:23 from 80.177.22.49 user PeterC.
In Reply to: Re: Narrator in the first person posted by John Lambert on May 19, 2004 at 17:09:17:
but I still think there is a much stronger editorial intervention somewehre in one of the novels. AR interrupts his narrative to insert his opinion in quite a decisive fashion.
Maybe you're thinking of how he deals with the Hullabaloos and the Margoletta, in CC.
Most of the incidents are dealt with in a splendidly engaged way- never any doubt where Ransome's sympathies lie, or about his dislike of the way modern manners are displacing decent ones, but always expressed though the feelings and experiences of the characters. However in the Postscript he speaks quite directly to the reader. "Nothing more was seen of the Hullabaloos. They had had enough of the Margoletta, went straight home to town and had their wet luggage sent after them." All of a piece with the reported remark of the Ancient Mariner in 'Racundra's First Cruise', "Ports are all one, and all dirt".