# Clarification explained — Futility

> Chapter companion for Futility by William Gerhardie.

## What happens

The narrator explicitly states that the first-person perspective used in the book is not a representation of the author's own identity, establishing a distinction between the narrative voice and the real person behind the text.

## Key lines

> The “I” of this book is not me.

The narrator who says 'I' in this story is not the same as the author.

_The author clarifies the separation between narrator and self._

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