Way, way back many entries ago, not long after the blog began, I wrote about the importance of perspective – how certain details within a narrative can be “true” or “false”, “fact or fiction”. Then again, (technically speaking) all the “facts” in a fictional story are “fiction”, though (almost) everything is “true” within the realm of that fictional world – though sometimes plot twists may occur that throw doubt upon what is “true” and what is “false”.
Wibbly-wobbly, timey-wimey.
Anyway.
The focus of that blog dealt with the external, technical query of perspective – whether the story is told from a first person perspective or from a third person perspective (limited or omniscient). The reliability of the narration, whether from an internal or external source, may or may not be questionable, given the “facts” presented within the narrative. It does seem to me that there are actually three sides to…
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