First person short stories

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10 Examples and Excerpts of First Person Point of View in Fiction

I'm back with another POV post, and this time the focus is on first person point of view in fiction.

While first person is one of the easier points of view to grasp when it comes to fiction writing, there is still plenty to get to grips with before (and while) embarking on a piece of writing using the first person. And referencing some great examples of first person point of view in fiction can be incredibly useful when ironing out POV in your own story.

But before we get to the examples, and excerpts, let's take a look at what first person point of view actually means.

 

What is first person point of view?

As the name suggests, first person point of view is written in the first person (I/We).

First person point of view is arguably the most intimate of narrative POVs as the reader gets to experience the story through the eyes of a character in the story. Unlike third person omniscient, when opting for first person point of view, the reader will only be privy to information that the narrator would realistically be able to perceive or know.

While the majority of books written in first person do so from the point of view of a central character, there are no hard and fast rules about thi

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First Person Singular (short story collection)

2020 short story collection by Haruki Murakami

First Person Singular (Japanese: 一人称単数, Hepburn: Ichininshō Tansū) is a collection of eight stories by Haruki Murakami.^[1] It was first published on 18 July 2020 by Bungeishunjū. As its title suggests, all eight stories in the book are told in a first-person singular narrative.^[2]

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"Cream"

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The first-person narrator accepts a sudden invitation to a piano recital from an old acquaintance. On a Sunday afternoon in November, he travels to the recital hall, located at the top of a mountain in Kobe. When he arrives, the gate is locked and the parking lot empty. No one responds and there seems to be no signs of a recital set to take place. Retiring to a small park nearby, he later meets an old man who implores him to visualize a circle that has many centers but no circumference. The man tells him that when you finally achieve such difficult things as reaching an understanding of something you once couldn't, it becomes the cream of your life, the crème de la crème. The narrator closes his eyes once again and tries to visualize such a circle but is unable to. Upon opening his eyes, he discovers that the old man has vani