***** A timeless classic
I always
feel a strange emotion in getting into the classics, as they present ways to
narrate that would have no room in modern fiction, yet some of them retain the
unchanged ability to engage the reader.
This is the
case of Wells’s “The Time Machine”, where the narrator voice is a secondary
character that merely reports what the protagonist tells. This kind of framed
structure could create a certain distance between the reader and the events,
but this doesn’t happen in this book, since the narrator just introduces the
time traveller and let him talk with his own voice. And the way he does it is
so vivid that in the mind of the reader every element and emotion described becomes
an image, despite the dated language. Actually, the latter contributes to the
suspension of disbelief. In fact, we find ourselves transported not only to a
distant future in which the adventures recounted by the traveller take place,
but also to the end of the nineteenth century, when he is telling them to his
friends.
This way,
reading is also turned into a short but intense journey.
The Time Machine on Amazon.
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