Re: A good insight.
WILL HOCHMAN (hochman@uscolo.edu)
Wed, 15 Apr 1998 09:17:27 -0600 (MDT)
Mr. Booth's use of the term, "unreliable narrator" is not a put down...at
the end of his great book, _The Rhetoric of Fiction_, in a bibliography,
Mr. Booth lists Salinger with Chekhov, Joyce, Baldwin, O'Connor and many
more in "A Gallery of Unreliable Narrators and Reflectors."
Mr. Booth helped me understand narration as a form of rhetoric and changed
the way I heard holden tell his story--his book is one I would recommend
to serious writers and yes, even to amateur readers since his love of lit
threads so many of his good ideas...will