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Unreliable Narrators
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We commonly do not remember that it is … always the first person that is speaking.
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― Walden or, Life in the Woods
― Walden or, Life in the Woods
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People always talk about unreliable narrators and, to tell you the truth, I think that’s a redundant term. I think ‘narrator’ inheres unreliability, because even if we don’t mean to lie, we’re still selecting this event instead of that event to talk about, and that’s a form of omission. Anyone who narrates a story, or narrates anything, is always giving you their version, and their version always has a slant to it.
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