What reality is
The novel is narrated by 15 characters for 59 chapters, and each chapter consists of a monologue. When the narrators recount their experiences, the present and the past are mixed. Sometimes the readers are told of the past, but sometimes the readers participate in the novel’s immediate present. “Frequently, the monologues are simple descriptive reports of events and situations, supplemented with comments and emotional reactions. The occasional excursions into the past function as illustrations to the present state of affairs, and point up complete events, which are meaningful as themselves.”
Besides the family members and neighbors, some narrators are outsiders of the story that enable the readers to follow viewpoints without emotional attachment. All characters comment on the same external reality, and readers are always addressed to directly. Narrators are not aware of each others’ opinion as in interrupted monologue, but they are interrupted by the arrangement of text. Readers do not know what will happen next but always have a chance to compare the different perspectives and balance them. Readers decide the source as reliable or unreliable, and it is closer to the way we attain information in daily life if compared to traditional narration.
“The transmissions of reality in personal experiences are not made explicit, but are implicit in the difference between reality and experience of it.” It provides a sense that even though we know there may be misjudgment in appearance, still we can only approach to the appearance.
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http://www.springerlink.com/content/k6315x2716776u14/
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