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I became obsessed with the idea of the unreliable narrator since I read Lolita and The Tunnel. What other books have one of these narrators?

>> No.15092534

The Tin Drum
the main character is basically a frogposter

>> No.15092542

>>15092504
I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream.

>> No.15092578

>>15092504
Remains of the Day has a really interesting unreliable narrator that I feel isn't as typical as the ones you usually see (ie he's not morally heinous or mentally unstable or whatever).

>> No.15092649

I just finished Mason & Dixon, and while it isn't a major focus of the novel, the reliability of the narrator is questioned at times.

>> No.15092862

>>15092504
The Sound and The Fury

>> No.15092873

>>15092504
nigga your first mistake was believing other people. trust no one

>> No.15092897

>>15092504
Borges does this almost compulsively

>> No.15092900

>>15092504
my diary desu

>> No.15093037

>>15092862
Yes.
>>15092504
Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarzuk

>> No.15093059

>>15092649
yeah the talking dog really raises the question of the narrator being reliable or not. i dunno tho

>> No.15093066

>>15092504

Maldoror. Much of the time you can't tell if it's "Maldoror-as-such", the author/narrator, or someone else. It's all a delerium.

>> No.15093968

>>15093037
>Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarzuk
this book, I'll be fooked, man! how has anybody ever finished this? I couldn't get past the first chapter without tearing my face off.

>> No.15093984

>>15092578
Most Ishiguro novels are like that. It's great.

>> No.15094123

>>15092862
>>15093066
>>15092897
Agree, good reccs
I'd add the Tell Tale Heart by Poe, Pale Fire by Nabokov and Filth by Irvine Welsh

>> No.15094157

>>15092504
The Great Gatsby

>> No.15094163

>>15092504
The Mysterious Affair At Styles

>> No.15094175

>>15094157
Nick is not really honest about his own person, but is he unreliable when it comes to events or Gatsby?

>> No.15094189

>>15093968
elaborate

>> No.15094205

>>15092542
I hadn't thought of this possibility before. What does the narrator stand to gain through lying?

>> No.15094213

>>15094189
the MC is in every aspect of her character hateworthy and annoying. the prose (Englsih translation, sorry) slouches like a snail, even worse dragged by the audiobook. the premise and setting is uninteresting scenery. all the action is described stupidly by the MC/narrator.

>> No.15094235

>>15094213
i see
im gonna read it (not in english though)

>> No.15094262

>>15092504
Nabokov - Despair

>> No.15094578

>>15092504
Moby-Dick
Hunger
Pale Fire

>> No.15094603

The 36 Lessons of Vivec
annotated version: https://www.newwhirlingschool.com/

>> No.15094909

>>15094213
I don't know about the English translation but in original Tokarczuk's books suck just as massively

>> No.15094983

>>15094205
He’s not lying, he’s mentally unstable.

>> No.15095028

It's genre fiction, but many of Gene Wolfe's books are like this.

>> No.15095051
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>>15094603
>The 36 Lessons of Vivec

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>> No.15095128

>>15095028
>genre fiction
Explain. Elaborate. Expand.

>> No.15095136

>>15095051
Kirkbrade's style is what led me to want to express myself in words in the first place. There's something mystical about his drug-induced ramblings.

>> No.15095164

>>15095136
Imagine having an identity so enmeshed in mass media that you become this bugman

>> No.15095202

>>15095164
Imagine denying the static change of the immutability of the fact that man always looks for something to inspire him, and that the media in which that inspiration has veen presented to him has changed throughout the ages, from the wild animals from which the hunter-gatherers derived their cave paintings, to the tales of homer and the like, to religion and its stories, to man and his relations with the other, and to a mish mash of all that came before synthethized in a palatable way to garner profits.
You CAN pan gold from the dirt, you are aware, yes anon?

>> No.15095250

>>15095202
No, despite your retarded pseudo-inspirational text, your Adorno-tier inability to be anything other than what's around you is glaringly apparent. Fun fact, almost none of the things you listed have anything in common with your consoomer media you dumb fuck.

>> No.15095342

>>15095128
I just mean that he was a science fiction writer. If you want to try reading him I suggest The Fifth Head of Cerberus (the book; it's also a story title), which has multiple unreliable narrators.

>> No.15095343
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>>15095202
>Imagine denying the static change of the immutability

Lmao immutable means unchangeable, what the fuck is static change? How is anyone denying it? Denying the not-moving change of the unchanging? Jesus christ

>> No.15095864

>>15094175
At least in the first half he is too entranced by Gatsby's glamour to see him clearly