Point of View

The novel is written from the point of view of an unnamed and unidentified narrator. This narrator has a peripheral presence throughout the Victory City narrative. However, they do allude to their role in relaying Pampa Kampana’s “immense narrative poem about Bisnaga” at the start of Part 1, “Birth,” Chapter 1 (3). After discovering Pampa Kampana’s lost text, the narrator says that they heard “for the first time the full account of the kingdom that began and ended with a burning and a severed head. This is that story, retold in plainer language by the present author, who is neither a scholar nor a poet but merely a spinner of yarns, and who offers this version for the simple entertainment and possible edification of today’s readers (3, 4). Therefore, the narrator is disseminating Pampa Kampana’s history of Bisnaga in an accessible manner. They believe that Pampa...