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NATASHA: narration from the woman's perspective, also "Signs"
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SES wrote: "It's unusual for VN to make a female character the center of consciousness in a story, particularly when the plot emphasizes her desirability"
It seems very true to me ; however, I can think of another story written from the woman's perspective ("with a third person limited omniscient narrator") and it is the one that has just been discussed here: Signs and Symbols; although of course the woman has no "obvious beauty", to quote "...That in Aleppo Once...".
Laurence Hochard
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SES wrote: "It's unusual for VN to make a female character the center of consciousness in a story, particularly when the plot emphasizes her desirability"
It seems very true to me ; however, I can think of another story written from the woman's perspective ("with a third person limited omniscient narrator") and it is the one that has just been discussed here: Signs and Symbols; although of course the woman has no "obvious beauty", to quote "...That in Aleppo Once...".
Laurence Hochard
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