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Hey /lit/

I have to write an essay about the unreliable narrator, referring to two texts. For one I've chosen 'Adams', by George Saunders, could /lit/ recommend another with sufficient evidence to write roughly 1000 words about?

Pic related, it's where you can find 'Adams'

>> No.1619204

Lolita

>> No.1619221

>>1619204

While that would be great, I have under a week to both read the text and write the essay, and I've tried reading Lolita before to no avail, I gave up half way through

>> No.1619224

>>1619221
>gave up half way through
Pleb detected. Everybody out.

>> No.1619225

>>1619221
Quitter.

>> No.1619232

>>1619203
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd.

>> No.1619256

Bible

>> No.1619262

The Great Gatsby. You can easily finish it in a day.

>> No.1619352

>>1619262

Have done it before, not allowed to revisit texts previously studied

>> No.1619371

>>1619203
Tlon, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius

>> No.1619373

The narrator from Handmaid's Tale.

Tons and tons of evidence regarding unreliability.

>> No.1619598

Pretty much anything in Jesus' Son. Maybe try "Emergency."

>> No.1619942

CATCHER IN THE RYE

>> No.1619957
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1619957

Any book OP you silly sausage, there is no such thing as a reliable narrator

>> No.1619958

Naked Lunch

>> No.1619960

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

>> No.1619964

The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
or
The Book of the New Sun

>> No.1619968

>>1619203
The best one would be Ada or Ardor by Vladimir Nabokov because Van Veen presents the book as his memoir yet writes as an omniscient narrator. Nabokov also writes his own glossary under the anagram Vivian Darkbloom but offers intentionally misleading translations. However, the book is 600+ pages so I doubt you'll use it.

You could use Heart of Darkness. The framing of the story (Kurtz's tale told through Marlow, told by an unnamed fisherman) makes it unreliable to begin with and Marlow misleads characters a couple times throughout. It wouldn't be the best example, but it's only like 80 pages.

>> No.1622023

>>1619598

Just read 'Two Men' and absolutely loved it

>>1619968

Thanks, I'll take a look at it

>> No.1622032

Une Maison Place Des Fetes. Unreliable third person narrative.

>> No.1622040

Don't do Turn Of The Screw. It's too obvious a choice so all the other lazy buggers will pick it.

>> No.1622044

The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro

>> No.1622047

Gene Wolfe. BotNS is probably too long, but you could do Fifth Head of Cerberus easily.

>> No.1622048

Literally Any Book Ever Written In First Person Or With A Narrator

>> No.1622050

Darkly Dreaming Dexter would be fun in theory, but you might find yourself fighting against "known" extra-textual material.

>> No.1622065

can you do the cask of amontillado?

it's only a short story

>> No.1622093

>>1622044

Looked at it in class, found it tedious

>>1622048

I realise that, I was asking /lit/ for particularly good or interesting ones

>>1622050

Read it before the TV series came out, it's possible but I remember it being a little like teen-fiction

>>1622065

I don't see why not, what's it about?

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>>1622050