Fiction in the First Person, or Immoral Writing.

Darrieussecq, Marie

The article offers the author's insights on fiction in the first person. The author says that Plato considers fictitious narrative in the first person as the most condemnable usurpation. She mentions that Aristotle sees novel as the continuation of mimesis, which is viewed as a form of humanism. She adds that fiction in the first person is likely to anger certain readers, wherein referential illusion can be so strong that leads reader to be enslaved to it and irritated with the author.

FIRST person narrative; IMAGINARY biography; MIMESIS; AUTHOR-reader relationships; PLATO, 428-347 B.C.; ARISTOTLE, 384-322 B.C.

Esprit Createur, 2010, Vol 50, Issue 3, p70

0014-0767

Academic Journal

10.1353/esp.2010.0499