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selfwinding 's review for:
The War of the Worlds
by H.G. Wells
One of the most interesting things about this book is the POV. The narrative comes in two parts—the narrator, who is outside of London, and his brother, who is inside London. In a modern day narrative, the point of view would alternate between these two characters, either as third person or first person for each. But in this early age of the novel, the entire narrative is first person, and when the brother's story is told, the narrator only refers to him as "my brother." Names aren't even used throughout the entire novel, and yet it's not difficult to connect emotionally to these characters.
The characters being stripped to their roles—brother, wife, artillery man, etc—is particularly interesting given that I recently finished the Southern Reach trilogy in which part of their psychological experiments were to strip away the names of the expedition teams and identify them only by their roles.
I continue to be completely fascinated by Victorian novel structure and point of view and how it correlates to contemporary ideas about novels and what is considered experimental.
Also, I am super glad that I finally read this book if for no other reason than the allegory to colonialism.
The characters being stripped to their roles—brother, wife, artillery man, etc—is particularly interesting given that I recently finished the Southern Reach trilogy in which part of their psychological experiments were to strip away the names of the expedition teams and identify them only by their roles.
I continue to be completely fascinated by Victorian novel structure and point of view and how it correlates to contemporary ideas about novels and what is considered experimental.
Also, I am super glad that I finally read this book if for no other reason than the allegory to colonialism.