OK. While writing this post, I am checking the povs (points of view) of successive chapters in Poul Anderson's Murder Bound. I do not know what I will find.
i, Conrad Lauring;
ii, Trygve Yamamura;
iii, Lauring;
iv, Yamamura;
v, Lauring;
vi, Yamamura;
vii, Lauring, then Yamamura;
viii, Yamamura;
ix, Yamamura;
x, Lauring;
xi, Yamamura;
xii, Lauring;
xiii, Lauring;
xiv, Yamamura;
xv, Yamamura;
xvi, Yamamura;
xvii, Lauring;
xviii, Yamamura;
xix, Lauring;
xx, Yamamura;
xxi, Yamamura.
Totals
Lauring 8
Yamamura 12
Both 1
- unless I find any more pov changes within chapters as I reread the chapters although I do not think so. So Yamamura gets more but not as many more as we would expect. As I noted in Conrad Lauring's POV, the omniscient narrator comes on-stage in half a sentence of Chapter iii. Will the text disclose any further subtleties?
You have had me for tonight, folks. Tomorrow and Sunday: Vintage Festival. Next week: various other social activities. Blogging has to fight for air space. What a relief that for some of us work is a thing of the past. It comes to us all if we live long enough.
5 comments:
Kaor, Paul!
Maybe MURDER BOUND should be the next PA book I reread! The bit you mentioned in previous blog piece about speculations on a Danish ruled world interested me. And the fact we see Yamamura in thirteen out of 21 chapters intrigued me.
Sean
Sean,
Yamamura also appears in chapters where he is not the pov character.
Paul.
Kaor, Paul!
Good! I thought we did not see enough of Yamamura in PERISH BY THE SWORD.
Sean
Or at least one such chapter. I have yet to reread them in detail. Also, I go off at tangents as you will have noticed.
Kaor, Paul!
I don't mind your tangents at all! (Smiles)
Sean
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