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LinMusen
- Oct 7, 2023
- Joined Jan 8, 2022
I think most people in my country didn't realize there is more than one type of third-person POV. When I was a student in the 80s, I only learned about third-person POV. I don't know about limited, omniscient, or objective. All third-person POV books were omniscient. Okay, maybe not all, but at least about ninety percent.
The narrator is the author, not one of the characters in the book. If the author wants to make a book that the narrator is a character in the story, then he or she will write the story in first-person POV.
As far as I remember, the ratio between third-person (omniscient) POV and first-person POV books is probably about 50:50. But I could be wrong, though. Because obviously, I didn't read that many.
Of course, it has changed now. I don't know when exactly the change happened, but it looks like after 2000.
Oh, but I'm talking about novels. When it comes to short stories, long ago, it seems that quite a lot of writers have written using limited third-person POV. Maybe because short stories are much simpler in structure than novels, so naturally the author only focuses on one character.
Third-person omniscient is not a new thing among Asian writers, especially in the Wuxia genre. If you notice, Wuxia's novels in the '60s, '70s, and 80' all were written in third person omniscient. It's like that's the only POV they knew. When I think about it again, I remember that almost all books in Asia in the last century were written that way. At least in East Asia and Southeast Asia. All those books, either written in third person omniscient, or first person. It seems in the old times, people did not know third-person limited POV existed.