Point of View

The novel is written almost entirely in the limited third person. (The one exception is that Sancho sometimes narrates in the first person.) Thus, despite the novel’s idiosyncratic structure and numerous point-of-view characters, the narrational perspective is consistently limited to one character’s perspective at a time. In Brother’s storyline, the point-of-view characters are Brother and Sister. In the story of Quichotte, the point-of-view characters include Quichotte, Sancho, Salma, Dr. Smile, and the Human Trampoline. Oerall, the novel is arguably an ensemble piece in that the juxtapositions of all of these perspectives inform the story’s overall thematic explorations. Notably, Sancho’s perspective is perhaps the most idiosyncratic, for while he has his own will and consciousness, his will and consciousness are often limited by the strange metaphysical tie between Quichotte’s consciousness and Sancho’s general existence.

Quichotte’s perspective is notable...