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Originally Posted by Dr. Drib
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This is especially useful for unreliable narrators:
The Sound and the Fury - Faulkner
Lolita - Nabokov
The Killer Inside Me - Jim Thompson
Psychos, murderers, mentally challenged individuals, social misfits, etc.
And people who smoke pipes.  |
Of those the only one I've read is Lolita and it is not in present tense. It may have some passages, I don't remember as it was a long time ago, but that works for Dickens and can be used to good effect. I just checked the book to make sure and it's definitely written in past tense.