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Which novel began the trend of a first person narrative be told from the monsters point of view

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It is John Gardner's novel "Grendel" from 1971 that initiated the trend of telling a story from a monster's point of view. The story is essentially the epic poem Beowulf spoken trough the eyes of Grendel
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