(urth) Introduction and Breath

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Humbert Humbert?

Also perhaps whoever narrated The Black Prince (it's been a while for me, but the setup is similar).

--- On Tue, 4/19/11, James Wynn <crushtv at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: James Wynn <crushtv at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: (urth) Introduction and Breath
> To: "The Urth Mailing List" <urth at lists.urth.net>
> Date: Tuesday, April 19, 2011, 3:18 PM
> 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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