House of the Spirits | Techniques
While much of The House of the Spirits seems to have very straightforward third person ("he/she") narrative style, there are, in fact, three distinct narrative voices in the novel. The first voice is that of an unnamed first-person ("I") narrator—the reader does not discover that this is Alba until the epilogue. From this narrator's opening paragraph, the reader is made aware that this account has been reconstructed from Clara's notebooks. After this disclosure, however, the majority of reconstruction is told in the third person, with all characters referred to as "he" or "she."...
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