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'Richardson’s 2006 list of fiction written entirely or largely in the ‘we’ form includes works by Kafka, Faulkner, Robbe-Grillet, Barthelme and Cortázar who researched the inclusive and exclusive effects of ‘we’ narratives (2006: 141-2). First person plural experiments from 1924 to 1964 were mainly undertaken in short bursts in short stories. After 1970, novels such as John Barth’s Sabbatical (1982) and Jeffrey Eugenides’ The Virgin Suicides (1993) showed the robustness of the ‘we’ voice for longer narrative. Similar to the ‘you’ of second person narration, the narrating ‘we’ is an unstable viewpoint that can disorient readers and lure them into perspectives not previously experienced. '
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