Point of View

The Love of Singular Men is narrated primarily from the point of view of its protagonist, Camilo, as he recounts the events of his childhood in Queím and navigates his instinct toward retribution during the latter years of his life. However, the final chapters of the novel are told from the perspective of an unidentified third-person narrator. This shift in perspective plays a significant role in the development of the novel's themes and in Heringer's exploration of Camilo's psyche, as the often obsessive fixations present in Camilo's first-person narration disappear in the final act of the novel to create the effect of a haze being lifted from the events of the novel, providing the reader with valuable perspective into the flawed aspects of Camilo's worldview and self-conception.

Camilo's narration, which covers the bulk of the novel, vacillates between two time periods—1976 and a a...