[ 3 / biz / cgl / ck / diy / fa / ic / jp / lit / sci / vr / vt ] [ index / top / reports ] [ become a patron ] [ status ]
2023-11: Warosu is now out of extended maintenance.

/lit/ - Literature

View post   
File: 27 KB, 499x481, pepejfc.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]
10938266 No.10938266 [Reply] [Original]

>Unnamed Protagonist

>> No.10938367
File: 2 KB, 125x102, 1518505728543s.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]
10938367

>second person perspective

>> No.10938377
File: 218 KB, 494x484, pepe_frustrated.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]
10938377

>>10938367
>present tense

>> No.10938407

>>10938377
this is actually the patrician mode of writing

>> No.10938417

>>10938367
'Un homme qui dort' is pretty good, though.

>> No.10938422

>book explores the meaning and beauty that can be found in mundane situations

>> No.10938438

>>10938407
It really isn't

>> No.10938446

I read this book called "And Then We Came to the End" and the entire thing was written in first person plural. Pretty bad

>> No.10938458

>>10938438
it is though

>> No.10938558

I usually don't even notice if the protagonist/narrator doesn't have a name. It follows that it doesn't fucking matter what he's called.

>> No.10938574
File: 19 KB, 478x571, pillsbery_gaze.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]
10938574

>>10938558
>author wants to use the nameless protag gimmick
>awkwardly works around none of the characters ever saying the name, ever
>pronouns get confused ever two paragraphs.

no.

>> No.10938586
File: 589 KB, 534x535, 1503756948266.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]
10938586

>>10938367
>second person perspective, but the protagonist is named and has a backstory

>> No.10938644
File: 1.33 MB, 404x227, bateman.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]
10938644

>>10938586
>character gets high
>prose turns into artsy line-broken poetry

>> No.10938679

>>10938438

Well said sir. Present tense is like shaky-cam in movies. It's annoying.

>> No.10938710
File: 227 KB, 413x310, 1522491537947.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]
10938710

>>10938574
>pronouns get confused ever two paragraphs

>> No.10938743

>>10938266
I can't come up with interesting names, ok? L-leave me alone!

>> No.10938762
File: 50 KB, 505x472, trying your absolute hardest not to jizz.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]
10938762

>book mostly written in past tense
>important scenes subtly switch tense to present
>mfw

>>10938438
Great counterargument there.

>> No.10938814

>>10938762

Hmm... but this is often pretty good, isn't it?

Constant present tense often gets annoying; just occasional present tense is effective.

e.g. Blood Meridian starts "See the child." to grab you but he soon goes into past tense.