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Thursday, September 6, 2012
Experiments
In his preface to the 1860 edition of The Woman in White, Collins wrote, “An experiment is attempted in this novel, which has not (so far as I know) been hitherto tried in fiction. The story…is told throughout by the characters of the book.” Was the experiment a success? What is gained and what is lost in telling the story exclusively through first person narratives?
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I think nothing is lost in giving first person narratives. It gave the novel a unique telling...as if the one reading the book was the detective trying to uncover information for a case and trying to find out "who done it" and "why?". I felt it was fantastic storytelling.
I completely agree. I loved this book and I loved the way it was told.
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