>>25373232Putagonists?
>>25373232What's an unreliable protagonist? Someone who doesn't deliver the goods when we need him to? Give an example.
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>>25373335a protagonist that tries to lie to himself and to the reader, writing contraddictory stuff to the plot
>>25373708I think you mean narrator, not protagonist.
>>25373697Qrd?>>25373749I think he specifically meant protagonist
>>25373708That sounds like ‘unreliable narrator’ to me.Novels where the narrator is somewhat self-deceiving, somewhat deliberately deceptive (lies by omission):Lolita (Vladimir Nabokov)The Debt To Pleasure (John Lanchester)Whodunnit where knowing the narrator is unreliable really gives the whole show away:The Murder Of Roger Ackroyd (Agatha Christie)The Sound and the Fury (Faulkner) has three narrators who are all more or less unreliable, for different reasons.Most of Alan Bennett's "Talking Heads" monologues are at least a bit "unreliable narrator". As he puts it, ‘they're telling a story they don't entirely understand themselves’.Stevens in The Remains of The Day (Ishiguro) is basically self-deluding. He doesn't try to be dishonest but the story he's telling (at least until the very end) isn't the story he thinks he's telling.Raymond Carver sometimes has somewhat unreliable narrators. (Generally alcoholics who are basically lying to themselves about the extent of their problem.)
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