Can a book be told from different narrative perspectives?
Hello,
I write stories in my free time, and I think I occasionally switch between the first-person and authorial narration within the story. It's all in the third person, but sometimes I tell things the character couldn't possibly know, and then I'm deeply immersed in the character again. Sometimes this switches within a scene.
Would that be a problem? Can a book be written with multiple narrative perspectives, or should it remain consistent?
I only know of one scene in The Kangaroo Chronicles where the narrative perspective was used, but is there anything like that in other books?
(I am concerned here with switching from authorial to personal, not with multiple characters as a narrative perspective)
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Well, sometimes this can come over, of course, confusingly, and/or destroy the atmosphere, because you can no longer immerse yourself in history. But that’s different in every story.
What seems to me to be a similar possibility is to install a narrator who speaks about the main person in the I perspective. Can you explain something relatively bad… do you know the book thief? (If not, by the way, it would be a bay tip :D) At least in this book there is the death that tells about the main character Liesel. In other words, you usually learn everything from Liesel’s perspective (in the 3rd person). In the meantime, the death turns on, which knows much more (but is not omniscient (who is written in the first person)) and spoils a bit, sometimes it is also briefly told from the point of view of another person (which knows death). This makes the book more lively and exciting in general.
I hope I could help you with my (something difficult descriptions)
Hi!
You really ask a very good question
I think if you change so in the middle of the scene, that is a bit confusing for the reader, if you want to change between the perspectives, then I would arrange it and make it clear that zb per chapter would make a different perspective. But so in general: yes it goes (even if I don’t like it personally;).
What seems to be better when the author changes between the individual characters per chapter.
Hope I could help you. 😊
Yeah, you can do it. I write stories myself on Wattpad and the perspective is completely normal. But try to arrange it, otherwise it is very confusing. Ever read a story where it wasn’t ordered, it was very confusing. But if you change the perspectives, you can (in my opinion) find yourself better in history and immerse yourself. They got to know the different characters better and learn what the others think about the characters.
It is completely normal and all right:)
Yes, it can
In some cases it can get confusing as it probably comes so suddenly, but you can make
I have this in my own stories or Books made like that. In some places, it might not have been such a good idea, but that can be improved.
I know this from one anime or another. But then it will be a little tricky.
Changing the narrative perspective is something absolutely normal! Just select the persepctives you need to tell the story best! And this perspective can also change. The average reader does not pay attention to whether the narrator is now telling something that the main character cannot know. Most readers don’t even know “auktorial narrators”.
So don’t worry about it. My German teacher always said, “Also I think no author sits down and says, ‘I write a novel in the auktorial perspective.'”
It is nevertheless an auktorial narrator:
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