Posted by andyb on October 12, 2007 at 13:36:02 from 194.80.183.1 user beardbiter.
In Reply to: Re: Third person posted by Jon on October 12, 2007 at 13:16:06:
One way round some of the problems of the first person narrative is to have a chain of story tellers. "This is the story my mother told me one starry night long ago by the shores ..."
The narrator can then add suppositions, tit-bits told by other characters or leave sections out on the grounds that they have forgotten etc. One of the longest chains is in Mary Norton's The Borrowers. IIRC the story is told by a woman remembering a visit she made as a little girl to an old lady who told her a story her brother told her which he had learnt from Arrietty...