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Originally Posted by elemenoP
Bill: can you give an example of an unreliable narrator/third person POV? I'm intrigued!
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Well a recent one I just finished was "The January Dancer" by Michael Flynn. though it really is a hybrid of first and third person narrative. (and a mix of two different third person narrators). Most of the story is told in the third person, but from the perspective of one a character who is relating the story to another character in the framing narrative.
But that being said, I think any limited third person perspective can be made an unreliable narrator.
Of course, the key is that people tend to look at third person narratives as being reliable... so they rarely notice them.
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Bill