Sentence examples for authorial narrator from inspiring English sources
She wonders at everything about the woman, in the even-handed but self-reflexive manner of the authorial narrator in Henry James's sex novel, "The Bostonians," a novel much in my mind as I read about Pat's love triangles.
Although "Lord Jim" departs from the previous Marlow tales in its use of an authorial narrator, the novel opens with this putative God's-eye view unable to determine whether Jim is one or two inches "under six feet".
"Inventions" makes use of the kind of self-reflexive narration that's found in a story like Nabokov's "Recruiting," in which the authorial narrator, after describing a character he has observed, appears in the story and sits down on a bench next to the creation he has "recruited" for his own use.
MPL: What prompted you to include an authorial narrator in the story who comments on what she is doing?
Around the edges of the story, an authorial narrator admits why she fictionalizes this past and shapes the telling of the story as she does.
By the time the group gets to Waterloo, however, the narrator and authorial alter ego, Lao, who will present the documentary, already has an altogether less corporeal kind of travel in mind.
Take, for example, the following passage, early in the novel, in which the principal narrator, an authorial stand-in named Mimi, looks east from the track around the Central Park (or, properly speaking, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis) Reservoir: "Windows high above Fifth Avenue flashed the bronze setting of the sun.
Because Philip, as narrator, is an authorial figment, his own story doesn't feel real enough.
But in "The Escape," the 21st-century narrator displays an authorial brio that seems almost 200 years out of date: "Look closer, dear reader -- look closer.
These authorial interruptions harden around a consistent theme: the narrator dislikes the conventional artifice of the novel.
Do you find that your authorial sympathy goes out to him, or to the narrator, who has to put up with his unlikable behavior?
