In literature, a type of narration in which the narrator appears as a character in the narrative. First-person narration may suggest a temporal distance between the narrator's (older) self who narrates ("narrator-I") and the one who appears in the narrative ("character-I"); first-person narration is limited, typically, to events witnessed or experienced by the character, and/or to those recounted to him or her. By definition, first-person narration is neither authorial nor impersonal; it is always personal, and it may be naive or unreliable.