/lit/ - Literature

>>13575313
You're right, I don't think it would have been possible to write a book like say, The Brothers Karamazov in the first person (although there are some "scenes" of the book where the "I" is mentioned, and the narrator is a part of the story for brief moments, but in the first person you just get so much more connection to the character and you also feel what he feels so much more. One thing is to read (and as we all know reading is the same as thinking with another man's mind, as Schopenhauer so wisely explained) "I did this and that.", "I felt this, as if I were in this or that, with such vividness that it made me remember my days, I ate and saw this or that etc." rather than when the book just says "He did this and she said that or this to him." You just distance yourself from the character in question and see yourself in third person, like a movie, which is not what literature should be about.

>"He was #1!"

As much as I like that one, I like the charm of this one.