Why are second person narratives so uncommon?

Why are second person narratives so uncommon?

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Because it's very gimmicky and awkward if not done well. If on a winter's night a traveler is definitely the endgame of 2nd person.

How would you even write that?

their gay

Because it's extremely difficult to do in a way that is both convincing and engaging.

Georges Perec used it for Un homme qui dort (which also happens to be an arty movie that /tv/ really likes)

>he doesn't read choose your own adventure books

Because you have not read enough books

You tell me

What am I missing out on? I haven't read one of these since Goosebumps. kek

You come to Veeky Forums.
You ask us about an impractical and weird narrative form.
You expect a straight answer.
>You cry when you don't get one.

There OP. They're a little more common now.

2nd person is "you"

>you sit up from your bed. sheets are strewn about, and there are visible patches of sweat. you've had another night terror.

book was incredibly good

Are there any good, read-worthy examples of stories written in 2nd-person?

chooseyourstory.com/story/eternal isn't bad, depending on your taste for fantasy

I think I have an Asterix one somewhere but it may be 3rd person.

If you genuinely like those sorts of books there are some good apps on android.

Julio Cortazar's Graffiti

How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia

was bretty good

He's pointing at you, OP.

the movie is gay as fuck desu

Suicide by Edouard Leve

Unless it's a CYOA book, the reader isn't going to see themselves as the character. It doesn't really do anything third or first can't.

Probably for the same reason as why they are uncommon in conversation, whereas first person and third person narratives are common in conversation.

Because you get sick of it fairly quickly

Was bretty good. One of the first books I read getting back into reading in college

Kek

Carlos Fuentes's Aura

I've only ever read one book written in second person. It was in middle school, and I (the protagonist?) was a teenage girl who drank spiked punch at a party and got raped or something.

I read that book too. We were both raped apparently.

I don't think it works in long works, too many details alienate the "you", unless the narrator is a character within the story. But I've seen it used wonderfully in some short stories.

I'm sure this is somebodies fetish.

see

>first person omniscient
>third person collective

Get on my level.

Smooth criminal by Michael Jackson.

i want to DL that film now desu too bad there aren't any easy public links

do a google search for [canon character's name] X reader

Nevermind, good ol rutracker pulls through again.

See

there's a whole medium dedicated to second person narratives; video games.

I fucking hate Calvino.
His hubris and prose are obnoxious.
Are his English translation so better than the original?

some of Sam Pink's stuff is in second person yeah? can't remember which is and isn't though, dude's prolific

No, he is obnoxious in English as well. I only like Invisible Cities

Didn't DFW win an award for an essay that he wrote in 2nd person?

too kino, humans are not worthy

Thomas Pikkon?

Bright Lights, Big City

...

Fpbp

A bit of Beckett's later work.

Eww