toward the middle of the 19th century , writers were experimenting with methods whereby the figure of the novelistcould, as far as possible , be hidden altogether so that the events of his story can be seen entirely through the eyes of one of the characters. The reader shares the character's feelings and reactions to what is happening to him. we are taken right into the character's mind as the actionproceeds so that we seem to take part in it. A pioneer author of this type of novel wasFlaubert in Madame Bovary, but perhaps the most extreme and complete examples of stories told in this way are the stream-of-consciousness novels Ulysses and Finnegans Wake, by James Joyce.