Posted by Peter Ceresole on October 11, 2007 at 20:39:01 from 80.176.146.133 user PeterC.
In Reply to: Re: Third person posted by John Nichols on October 11, 2007 at 13:39:44:
So is it normal to write in the third person?
Much more normal than to write in the first person. This may have changed recently as we entered the 'me' generation, but in AR's time I believe that the majority of novels were written in the third person.
A truly skilful first person writer such as Anthony Powell could handle his narrative with many characters to make it effectively third person, without inducing vertigo. But few writers are that good.