This Mournable Body

What is the narrator point of view in the novel, This Mournable Body?

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Though closely fixated on Tambu’s perspective, the novel is written in the second person, an unusual mechanism in fictional works. The second-person perspective occupies an emotional middle-ground between the directness and ostensible transparency of the first-person, and the distanced, aloof voice of the third-person. While the third-person talks about a person, and the first-person talks as and in the voice of that person, the second-person talks to its character. The voice of the narrator is thus talking to Tambu, as opposed to talking about or as Tambu. The narration is also written using the present tense.

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