29 Jul
2003
29 Jul
'03
1:31 p.m.
On Tue, 29 Jul 2003 15:23:11 EDT Samerivertwice@aol.com wrote:
"Bright Lights, Big City" was the first book I ever read narrated entirely in 2nd person. You read the book, you think the idea is interesting but after awhile you get annoyed and wish the author would stop trying to put you in the narrator's shoes. You know?
Michel Butor wrote LA MODIFICATION in 1958 and this is the style he used (known in French as "vocatif" for the plural "you"). Is anybody aware of something earlier than that? Patrice.