Word: first-person
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...other demand is that we accept the first-person narrative as being the heroine's actual stream of consciousness. Mr. Morton has a naturally florid style, and his exploitation of the descriptive powers of the English language leads him into a gaudiness of analogy and description which is especially ill-adapted to hectic first-person narration. ("It was a terrifying thing, a pale apple-green cloud, like a carbuncle in the anthracite...
...last novel, "The Darkness Below," Mr. Morton has dealt with an important and fertile topic, this time with the insecurity accompanying loss or rejection of values or allegiances. But, as in the earlier work, he has drawn attention away from the first-person, with whom he is presumably concerned, by his superior handling of objective narrative. Nevertheless "Asphalt and Desire" remains a stimulating commentary on the tribulations of a girls whose ambitions, nurtured by college life, outrun the realities of her social position...
...speech to NATO, he sometimes sounded-as he certainly had a right to-like a man talking to an audience on the other side of the Atlantic. There was an increased use of rolling, majestic phrases and correspondents pounced on the sudden prominence of the first-person singular. (Sample: "I have never sought the role of a philosopher; most certainly I have never had any reputation as such. But I submit that any man . . .") Commented Paris' Le Monde: "His first [speech] as candidate for the presidency...
Whether that jab is justified or not, this is a new departure for Graham-Greene -the first novel he has written in the first person. That fact signals a special effort, an attempt to go further than he has ever gone before. The first-person narrative is a tricky medium-especially when the person who tells the story is the somewhat seedy, not altogether admirable, Graham Greene type of "hero." And, as if that difficulty were not enough, Greene has added a second narrator: the book is divided between Bendrix' reminiscent story and Sarah's diary. Only...
Like millions of other civilians-turned-soldiers, Ben Isaacs became hardened to combat and began to pull his weight. But his ingrown, slit-focus view of life kept him on sour emotional rations. Face of a Hero is less a novel than a first-person recital of discontent: Ben's buddies didn't know what they were fighting for, the B-24s weren't fit to fly, some of the officers were deadweights, the G.I.s behaved crudely with Italian civilians, the Red Cross girls dated officers only...