unreliable?

[jbor]

>> This is a bit of cloth I've been worrying for awhile and I fear there's a
>> big something in my mental blind spot. Question: are there unreliable
>> narrators in Pynchon's work? (Is there unreliable narration?)

> Not sure if I completley get your meaning but a number of the characters in V.
> are deeply unreliable
> as narrators (The Guacho and Stencil being the examples that leap to mind most
> immediately).

Dennis Flange? Fausto? Emory Bortz? Byron the Bulb? Eliza Fields? Not to
mention those apocryphal events and details in _GR_ which are communicated
via a purportedly "detached" narrative agency.

A more valid question might be whether there are any truly "reliable
narrators" in Pynchon's work. It seems to me that, as with Nabokov, this
whole notion of "reliable narration" is something which is deliberately
undermined in and through the narratives.

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