NPPF: Who's watching Gradus?

[jbor]

> --- Jasper Fidget <jasper at hatguild.org> wrote:
>> 
>> I agree -- and had the same impression -- that the narrator knows too much
> about Gradus and his story, especially toward the end when Gradus becomes
> fully
> realized -- er real-ized? -- and the level of detail grows quite vivid.

on 17/7/03 11:40 PM, David Morris wrote:

> We readers know that there is no possible way for ANYONE to know as much about
> Gradus's journey as Kinbote relates to us - UNLESS the speaker was Gradus.
> Otherwise I think we have to chalk it up to Kinbote's imagination.  This whole
> question brings to mind Stencil's "Stecilizations."

Yes, I was going to suggest a tie-in between Stencil and Kinbote. Although
the publication dates of the two novels are cutting it a bit fine for a
direct influence, Stencil's interpretations (and wilful misinterpretation)
of his father's diaries is very much like Kinbote.

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