Wednesday, 16 October 2024

Clinton And Nystrom

Regular blog readers know that:

I give a lot of attention to narrative points of view (povs);

Poul Anderson usually has good control of his povs;

I do other reading, often of Stieg Larsson, later in the evening;

we sometimes link that later reading to Anderson.

With all that for context, I have found an interesting pov point in Larsson. Clinton, Nystrom and Sandberg are in conversation. When Sandberg speaks:

"Clinton and Nystrom exchanged glances."
-Stieg Larsson, The Girl Who Kicked The Hornets' Nest (London, 2009), p. 588.

But whose pov is it? Reading on:

"...Clinton and Nystrom felt a surge of anxiety." (ibid.)

A double pov! That is unusual. And my impression, for what it is worth, is that this was unreflecting on Larsson's part.

4 comments:

Stephen Michael Stirling said...

Double POV's are extremely tricky. -You- know which is which from moment to moment, but it's easy to confuse the readers.

paulshackley2017@gmail.com said...

I think that a double pov is inappropriate.

Sean M. Brooks said...

Kaor to Both!

Another thing I should remember looking out for, double POVs.

Ad astra! Sean

paulshackley2017@gmail.com said...

There are not many.