Review: Madison Smartt Bell on Rumer Godden
Central intelligence is a term Henry James used, to describe a strategy in fiction that falls between the omniscience of the nineteenth-century narrator and the subjectivity embraced by Hemingway and his followers, who tended to lock point of view tightly into the mind of a single character at a time. Authors had already begun to abdicate obvious presen…
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