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Disgrace by J. M. Coetzee is a good example of third person present tense. i definitely got the sense of its filmic qualities, but given the lack of a strong narrative voice, it has a similar effect to watching a handheld video recorder film i.e. less 'staged'
I think there is always going to be a narrator even if there isn't one in the text, we just place our own thoughts and narrative commentary into the book instead of receiving it from an explicit narrator.
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