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Saturday 27 June 2020

THREE METHODS TO WRITE A NOVEL



The novelist has his choice among three methods
1.    Direct, or epic
2.    The autobiographical and
3.    The documentary

In the first and most usual way, the novelist is an historian narrating from the outside.

In the second, he writes in the first person, identifying himself with one of his characters (generally, though not always, the hero or heroine) and thus produces an imaginary auto biography; as in Robinson Crusoe, The vicar of wakefield, David copperfield, Esmond, Jane Eyre

In the third, the action is unfolded by means of letters, as in the “epistolary” novels of Richardson, Smollett’s Humphrey Clinker, Fanny Burney’s Evelina, and Goethe’s Sorrows of Werther; or a favourite device of Wilkie Collins by diaries, contributed narratives, and miscellaneous documents.

Occasionally, the methods may be blended, as in Bleak House, where Esther summerson’s story is told by herself, while the rest of the book takes the direct historic form.

It is evident that each of these three ways has its special advantages;  for while the direct method always gives the greatest scope and freedom of movement, a keener and more intimate interest may sometimes be attained by the use of either the first –personal or the documentary plan.

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