A well-told novel can have many faces. In our times, multiperspectivism is very fashionable, both in literature and in film and television. This resource is used constantly in Once Upon a Time (television) and in Game of Thrones (novel). Sometimes an apparently minor and irrelevant character can be even more interesting than the main one and hide beautiful feelings and even the villain can have a traumatic past.
Some XNUMXth century writers like Benito Pérez Galdós had an imaginary of characters that in some novels they were mere secondary characters and in some others they were the protagonists, as in the case of Rosalía Pipaón, the protagonist of La de Bringas and a character with antagonistic overtones in Tormento.
The same device has been used by many novelists of our day such as Johanna Lindsey, in her romance novels, and other authors such as Stephenie Meyer, who wrote stories from the point of view of Eduard Cullen, and Kiera Cass, who also published a story from the point of view of the male character in the novel The selection (explained in the first person by the protagonist).
However, sometimes there are authors who decide retake a forgotten character from a novel or story written by another carr. This happens in Penelope and the twelve maids by Margaret Atwood, Rhett Butler by Donald Mccaig, Friday or the limbos of the Pacific by Michael Tournier, among others. The most remarkable story is the reinterpretation of one of Emma Zunz's characters, the sailor, who appears as a casual character that Emma uses to achieve her ends, a gross and rude character. A storyteller takes up this character and writes a story in which he is in love with Emma and tries to find her.