[ SECRET POST #6186 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #6186 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Literature graduate who always hated first-person POV fiction here. I do read it occasionally if it's an author recognised by canon but even then it can be grating (take Poe, for example. Of course there's a reason behind such a narrative choice, but it gets tiresome after a certain amount of time).

Contemporary authors, though? Never. They seem to be much worse in the Hey Look At Me, I Am So Special department and it seems that nobody born after 1920 is able to pull off first-person in a way that isn't completely insipid -- nor do they seem to understand how unreliable narrators really work, exaggerating everything about the mechanism and turning it into something completely ineffective in the end.

First-person is extremely hard to pull off and its prevalence in a lot of contemporary fiction today is mind-boggling given how few authors actually put it to good use...

[(Anonymous)]

I think a lot of contemporary authors over identify with their characters, so it ends up with them struggling to sound unique. It is especially bad with fan authors, a lot of whom still seem to be stuck in the angry teen out to right all wrongs phase of life, whose special baby can do no wrong.

[(Anonymous)]

As "overcompensation" in a way, yes, it's quite possible. Perhaps a greater sense of identification with a character one decides to write in first-person is the one reason not to write them that way...