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1st or 3rd person perspective in literature?


Which do you prefer?

Personally I've always preferred 3rd person as the story's events aren't just limited to one person's perspective.

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It allows for more prose and poetry too, the author is describing events in the story more as an outsider, sort of coming in with God's expanded point of view. Yes I prefer the third person too.

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I'm guessing third person is more the norm. One thing I heard recently is with a first person narrator, it's possible to introduce an unreliable narrator, as if the person telling the story may only be telling you what they want you to hear.
I think this is how Lolita was written.

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