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Can anyone think of a piece of published fiction that uses rotating 1st person perspective?

Date: 2011-03-21 07:22 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] baron-waste.livejournal.com

Barry Malzberg did that in some of his SF short atories; one I'm remembering took the form of depositions from witnesses to a bizarre event that we only piece together gradually in reading them - and as you might expect the witnesses themselves are in full CYA mode, spending as much time bitching about and blaming the others involved as actually describing anything, so at the end we're STILL not really sure what happened - not as a straight narration of the event would tell it. It was clever.

Now, rotating third-person is more common, of course - he did that too.

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