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There's certainly a fair number of science-fiction and fantasy stories that describe a world, a society, or some other concept, without relying on individual characters. Talking about a people, but...
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There's certainly a fair number of science-fiction and fantasy stories that describe a world, a society, or some other concept, without relying on _individual_ characters. Talking about a people, but not about anyone in particular. Similarly, a lot of Jorge Luis Borges stories are about describing a fantastical concept - "The Library of Babel" and "The Babylon Lottery" spring to mind immediately. I think "Library" might possibly have a narrator, but it might as well not have. I'd say this type of story has no characters, because it has no _actors_, nobody individual we're focusing on. But there is a nebulous "they" - "the people," "it was decided," etc., - that moves the story forward; you can't point to any _particular_ character, but there are people somewhere in the picture.
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2011-06-04T19:10:50Z (over 13 years ago)
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