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unreliable narrator

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(person) by Quizro (8.2 hr) (print)   ?   (I like it!) Tue Mar 06 2001 at 1:09:27

In fiction, a narrator who does not provide an accurate depiciton of events to the reader, either through ignorance, delusion, or outright deception. The textbook example is "Haircut" by Ring Lardner, in which a small-town barber recounts a local tragedy to his customer. Though the account may be factually accurate, the reader sees more deeply into the truth of the situation than the one telling the story.

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haircut Life's Little Deconstruction Book Unreliable narrators in 'The Remains of the Day' and 'Atonement' Rashomon
Avoid highly subjective writeups This is my truth tell me yours The Remains of the Day American Psycho
The Book of the Long Sun Waiting for the Barbarians Atonement Gene Wolfe
Thanotropism You can't handle the truth Truth is a concept, subjective like anything else Icewind Dale
A Song Of Stone Keeping In Mind for this reason we must burn all art Pale Fire
Claws of iron shall rend the Ungodly Deception scattering, like flower petals or crowds from the sound of a gunshot Jaka's Story
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