who's Christian?

[jbor]

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>From: Thomas Eckhardt <thomas.eckhardt at uni-bonn.de>
>

> Of
> course, often - and mostly in inferior fiction - the implied author's POV can
be
> easily detected and the reader may rightfully assume that it doesn't stray too
> far from the real author's views - that is, if he or she is not a
> Deconstructionist.

There are a couple of things here, though I agree with pretty much
everything else in your post. For one, the notion that "inferior fiction"
can be defined by the transparency of the implied author's pov is arguable
at least I think, and I think I'd also like some clarification about why you
have singled out Deconstructionists as pariahs of some sort. The general
idea of deconstruction is to uncover the processes and foundations through
which meaning/s are constructed in texts, which isn't so far afield from the
type of analysis you have been offering vis a vis Fausto's confessions in
_V._.

best