A Clockwork Orange | Burgess's Narrative Technique.
In this essay, the author examines Burgess's narrative technique.
When we tell stories or listen to them, there is always a teller, someone describing the situation and relating the action, often commenting on it. When the person telling the story is also involved in the story, the teller is called a first-person narrator. When novelists use such narrators, they must choose between a first-person central narrator and a first-person peripheral narrator. Both use the first-person pronoun "I," but the latter involves a narrator who, although telling the story from his or her point of view, is a minor player in the events described, often an observer of...
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