On Mar 5, 8:10 pm, jeff wrote:
Adam wrote:
On Mar 5, 10:54 am, "Wayne Knight" wrote:

On Mar 5, 9:57 am, "Joe McIntosh" wrote:

Still trying to complete article on life of a small brook trout from
hatchery to death on a rat face McDougal from the fish point of view., and
find first person {the fish } point of view sort of confusing.
Wolfgang or some of you book folks, have you read anything presented from
the fish side of story?

Haig-Brown : "Return to the River"

A terrific book, from probably the most talented writer of fishing
books, ever. However, it happens to be written in the third-person
(omnicient) point of view, not in the first-person.

That being said, wouldn't any story that attempted to be from the
perspective of the fish be fairly contrived? That's probably why you
find it confusing, Joe. It's hard enough to imagine a story narrated
from the perspective of a nonhuman primate, not to mention going a few
rungs down the evolutionary ladder to the fish. Either some serious
anthropomorphism needs to be accomplished (so the fish talks more like
a person), or there has to be a third-person voice.

Just my $0.02 worth,

Adam

john gardner wrote a book from the beowulf monster's point of
view...grendel. very effective and interesting when i read it decades ago.

Broadly speaking, there are two classes of books in this world; those
whose covers are (as Mr. Bierce once observed) too far apart, and
those whose covers are way too close together. Gardner's "Grendel"
exemplifies the latter as well as any.

Thanks for the reminder. I'll be looking for a copy to reread soon.

Wolfgang