Re: Unreliable Narrators
Jim Rovira (jrovira@juno.com)
Mon, 14 Jun 1999 10:26:30 -0400
Yeah, that's the thing...the only way I can see escaping the limitations
of any one narrator's perspective is by writing the narrative in the
third person from an omniscient point of view.
I think "unreliable narrator" is best reserved for those narrators who
seek to deliberately deceive the reader.
Jim
On Mon, 14 Jun 1999 08:39:33 +0100 Scottie Bowman <rbowman@indigo.ie>
writes:
> It appears that the term 'unreliable narrator' is one
> that all self-respecting American literateurs use with
> comfortable familiarity. It keeps returning to this
> list like a familiar exam topic that all candidates
> would be wise to master. It's not so familiar to me.
>
> I'd have thought that all first person narratives are,
> by their nature, idiosyncratic, subjective & thereby
> 'unreliable'. We've had everything from Huck to
> Nick Carroway to the Larry of Razor's Edge cited
> as examples.
>
> I'd be more interested to hear examples of what
> the experts regard as a 'reliable' narrator.
>
> Scottie B.
>
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