"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? Tom In a message dated 7/29/03 3:08:31 PM Eastern Daylight Time, herb@eskimo.com writes:
That book IS fun. There are some other uses of the 2nd person, most that I know of are from the late 20th century, though there could well be earlier works too.
Every third chapter of Carlos Fuentes' Death of Artemio Cruz is in the 2nd person. Several other books by Latin American authors from the 1960s-80s may also be written at least in part in the 2nd person. Several novels by Gilbert Sorrentino use the 2nd person as well.
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