Introduction and Breath

James Wynn · 19 Apr 2011, 19:18 · from 2011-April.txt.gz

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From: crushtv at gmail.com (James Wynn)
Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2011 14:18:18 -0500
Subject: (urth) Introduction and Breath
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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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