‘In free indirect style’, writes D. A. Miller, ‘the two antithetical terms (of character and narration) stand, so to speak, as close as possible to the bar (the virgule, the disciplinary rod) that separates them. Narration comes as near to a character’s psychic and linguistic reality as it can get without collapsing into it, and the character does as much of the work of narration as she may without acquiring its authority’
The Bourgeois: Between...
