[ SECRET POST #6186 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #6186 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I tend not to like first person for similar reasons: it typically comes across as far too narrow and self-absorbed.

That said, I think it can work if the author leans into those aspects of it, or if there's some aspect of the narrative itself that makes it appropriate. Take historical fiction: first-person can suggest that you're sitting with an elder, listening to them relay their experience of significant events, of bygone eras, of cultures that time has altered. I'm reading 'Cloudsplitter' at the moment, and the first-person POV works on all these fronts. It's historical fiction, and the central figure is writing to a reporter who'd asked about his life, and his younger self has this degree of self-importance to him, this lack of self-awareness, that I'm not sure would come across as well if it were third-person.

YA, also, is perfect for it, because (and I'm not intending any shade, here) its audience tends to be self-absorbed, and because I suspect it makes it easier for them to see themselves in the main character.