Re: 1st, 2nd, 3rd - 4th person POV??
From: | Philippe Caquant <herodote92@...> |
Date: | Saturday, September 25, 2004, 6:09 |
--- "H. S. Teoh" <hsteoh@...> skrev:
> On Fri, Sep 24, 2004 at 12:24:41PM -0400, Roger
> Mills wrote:
> [...]
> > In the various creative writing classes I took
> waaaaay back when (with a
> > deliciously bitchy teacher) we had to do exercises
> in all these methods; 2d
> > Pers. is the hardest, rather weird, and uncommon
> in Engl. prose probably for
> > good reason.
>
> Back in my highschool days, I had an English teacher
> who was convinced
> it was impossible to write a story in the 2nd
> person.
Michel Butor's "La Modification" is very famous for
being entirely written in the 2nd person. See:
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/butor.htm
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Philippe Caquant
Ceterum censeo *vi* esse oblitterandum (Me).