The book's beauty lies in its way of narration, a non-sequential way of narration with the words chosen enticingly.
He is especially intelligent on the way in which of narration and belief (both formal religious belief and the particular quality of belief needed to make a stake in an imaginative fictional world) interact with each other.
As he demonstrated in his first novel, "Fieldwork," which was set in Thailand, he's a sharp collector of stories, and he has an enjoyable way of threading his narration with story: Berlinski knows how to keep leading us on, even at the cost of sounding closer to Somerset Maugham and Graham Greene than a contemporary novelist should want to.
For one thing it necessitates a lot of narration, not the liveliest way of drawing an audience into a dramatic world.
You needn't own a copy of The Ragged-Trousered Philanthropists to appreciate the moving, beautiful way Morrison tells a story without a single word of narration or dialogue.
Melodrama, kitsch, national allegory, catharsis and the opera's convention (I love you, but in the fourth act I will kill you) gives way to the pain of the nation inside the body of narration.
She likes writers to do their "homework," and she does hers with every book that comes her way, "looking closely at the narrative choices made on each page, the juxtapositions of events, the gaps, the angle of narration".
(There's lots of narration).
We live again in a city worthy of narration.
I hope you'll excuse that little flight of narration.
Cognitive ability is to be assessed by scales of narration, description, exposition, argumentation, instruction and interaction.
