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This category contains articles about novels which use a third-person narrative structure; a mode of storytelling in which the narration refers to all characters with third person pronouns like he, she, or they, and never first- or second-person pronouns. The narrator can be omniscient or limited
The novel follows multiple characters in a third-person omniscient narrative and is divided into six stories that take place over the course of six decades. [3] [4] [5] It received positive reviews and was longlisted for the 2021 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction.
Narration is the use of a written or spoken commentary to convey a story to an audience. [1] Narration is conveyed by a narrator: a specific person, or unspecified literary voice, developed by the creator of the story to deliver information to the audience, particularly about the plot: the series of events.
Catch-22 is a satirical war novel by American author Joseph Heller.It is his debut novel.He began writing it in 1953; the novel was first published in 1961. Often cited as one of the most significant novels of the twentieth century, [3] it uses a distinctive non-chronological third-person omniscient narration, describing events from the points of view of different characters.
The novel centres on a single father and his children: Anna, his natural daughter; Claire, who was adopted as a baby when Anna was born; and Cooper (Coop), who was taken in "to stay and work on the farm" [1] at the age of four when orphaned.
Linden Hills is a novel written by Gloria Naylor, originally published in 1985. [1] Naylor bases her allegory on Dante's Inferno. [2] The narrative is written from a third-person omniscient perspective, detailing different characters based on different traits that correspond with the different rings of Dante's interpretation of Hell.
The book is split into four chapters, each narrated in the third-person omniscient limited style; by far the largest is the second, which is limited to Waldo Brown's point of view. Following this is a chapter told through Arthur Brown's view.
The novel is told in the third-person omniscient point of view. [ 6 ] According to Italian writer Alberto Arbasino , Federico Fellini 's film 8½ (1963) used similar artistic procedures and had parallels with Musil's novel.