Herzog | Techniques
Point of view in Herzog is unusual and effective. Technically, it is third-person, yet the reader seems to be sharing Herzog's unmediated thoughts and feelings. It is perhaps best understood as a conflation of narrative and protagonist voices, a "third person-I" point of view. And indeed, the narrator occasionally slips into the "I" voice.
Herzog contains little action in the traditional sense. Its action is largely internal, the dialogue of the mind with itself. Typically, the book will present a lengthy meditation, a series of notes or letters by Herzog, and a...
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