unreliable narrators

[alice wellintown]

We are making some progress. We have a definition. We agree that P
employs unreliable narrators in both V. and in  M&D. I'm satisfied.
And I prefer to move back to the issue raised by the text under
discussion, thyat is to IV. I don't disagree with anything you, Tore,
have said about GR's narrator(s).  CL49? Another time too.

What about IV? Can we agree that IV's narrator is unreliable and
therefore fits out definition (W. Booth)?

On 12/11/09, Tore Rye Andersen <torerye at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> Mark:
>
> > Yes, the questioning of 'reality' is part of much of his work.
> > Which is why Booth's definition of 'unreliable narrator" does
> > not apply---the touchstone examples need a "reality" revealed by
> > the text to set off the unreliability of the narrator.
>
> Exactly! Very well put.
>
> This is what Alice simply doesn't get, and this is why I argued
> that to speak of GR's narrator in terms of reliability and unreliablity
> seems pretty much besides the point. This does not amount to saying that
> the narratorial situation in GR cannot be analyzed, as Alice so
> reductively (and typically) construes my statement; rather, it amounts
> to saying that the analysis in this instance takes off from a flawed
> premise, and that we should try to approach the question of GR's
> narrator from a different angle.
>
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