(urth) Introduction and Breath

[Brian Short]

Verbal from The Usual Suspects would be a strongly unreliable narrator
by this definition.

Thanks,
-Brian

On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 3:18 PM, James Wynn <crushtv at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 4/17/2011 5:31 PM, 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 really don't think that either is the case with Severian.
>>
>> A narrator who simply makes mistakes or who doesn't know everything isn't
>> unreliable in this strong sense.  Maybe we could define 'weakly unreliable'
>> and 'strongly unreliable'
>
> What then would be an example in literature of a 'strongly unreliable'
> narrator?
>
> J
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