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Originally Posted by HarryT
Certainly. Austen invented a style of writing which was not "action based" but was instead based on characters revealing their inner thoughts and emotions to the reader. It may seem like an obvious way to write now, but Austen was the first to do it. That had a major influence on the way subsequent authors wrote novels.
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Well, according to Wikipedia it does not seem like she invented it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_indirect_speech
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Roy Pascal cites Goethe and Jane Austen as the first novelists to use this style consistently.[3] He says the nineteenth century French novelist Flaubert was the first to be consciously aware of it as a style. This style would be widely imitated by later authors, called in French discours indirect libre. It is also known as estilo indirecto libre in Spanish, and is often used by Latin American writer Horacio Quiroga.
In German literature, the style, known as erlebte Rede (experienced speech), is perhaps most famous in the works of Franz Kafka, blurring the subject's first-person experiences with a grammatically third-person narrative perspective.
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