Unreliable Gaiman

Adam Stephanides · 08 Dec 2004, 07:05 · from 2004-December.txt.gz

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From: adamsteph at earthlink.net (Adam Stephanides)
Date: Wed Dec  8 07:05:17 2004
Subject: (urth) Unreliable Gaiman
In-Reply-To: <1f761737041129121713fa1df at mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <BDDC7406.4A32C%adamsteph at earthlink.net>

on 11/29/04 2:17 PM, Dan'l Danehy-Oakes at danldo at gmail.com wrote:

>> But Gaiman could have figured out some way to have the
>> Professor's thoughts reveal that she had been to Narnia without
>> admitting to herself that Narnia was real; after all, he's a clever
>> writer, and likes to do that sort of thing.
> 
> H'mmm. No doubt _Wolfe_ could have done so; but I can't see
> Gaiman doing it. I've only read four novels, a scattering of
> shorts, and some funnybooks, but I've never seen anything in
> Gaiman's work that suggested he was capable of the kind of
> subtlety required to pull off this kind of "unreliable point of
> view" trick.

Upon thinking about it some more, Gaiman doesn't do it as often as I'd had
the impression he did. In fact, the only real example I can think of is
"Murder Mysteries," which is in his collection "Smoke and Mirrors." But that
story does show that Gaiman is capable of doing it.

--Adam

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