unreliable

[Toby G Levy]

I always thought that the term "unreliable narrator" applied only to
books told in the first person.

And none of the Pynchon novels are first person narratives.

And further, I always thought that even among the first person narrative,
the only time you had an "unreliable narrator" is when the narrator lies
or deliberately misleads the reader.  A classic example would be Agatha
Christies "The Murder of Roger Ackroyd." A recent example would be
Lasdun's "The Horned Man."  By the end of the novel, I was so upset with
the narrator that I was cheering on all the indignities he suffered.

Toby

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