#JAMES WOOD, HOW FICTION WORKS#
Thanks to free indirect style, we see things through the character’s eyes and language but also through the author’s eyes and language, too. We inhabit omniscience and partiality at once. A gap opens between author and character, and the bridge
- which is free indirect style itself - between them simultaneously closes that gap and draws attention to its distance.
James Wood, How Fiction Works
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摘于6/19/2026