(urth) Introduction and Breath

David Stockhoff dstockhoff at verizon.net
Sun Apr 17 17:35:50 PDT 2011


Exactly.

On 4/17/2011 7:09 PM, António Marques wrote:
> Gerry Quinn wrote:
>> For me, the term 'unreliable narator' implies that the author is telling
>> us another, different story disguised behind the overt story the
>> narrator is telling is; either the narrator is lying or he doesn't
>> understand what's going on.
>
> I think you're doing overanalysis. 'Unreliable narrator' simply means 
> that the narrative isn't the absolute complete truth of what happened. 
> Which, actually, applies to any narrative. What Gene Wolfe does - as 
> other did and do - is to craft that part of his work, instead of 
> leaving it to be a subproduct.
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