Point of View

Munich is narrated by a third-person limited narrator who alternates between Hartmann’s and Legat’s perspectives. Both Hartmann and Legat appear to be reliable narrators, although they do express differing opinions on other characters, particularly in their assessments of Chamberlain and the other figures of the British delegation. However, these differences do not stem from deceit or delusion, but from their different goals and life experiences. In Days One and Two, alternating chapters show events in London from Legat’s perspective and in Berlin from Hartmann’s. As the characters approach each other in Day Three, however, this straightforward structure begins to break down. Hartmann and Legat share a chapter for the first time in Day Three, Chapter 6, but a line break still separates the two perspectives. The alternations reach their fastest rate in Part Three, Chapter 8, when Legat has made the decision to...