Thread: Narrator, not omniscient, not unreliable, not protagonist
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Old 06-07-2023, 08:43 PM   #7
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Originally Posted by Pajamaman View Post
An Artist of the Floating World. Kazuo Ishiguro. He is super unreliable, but its brilliant.
"Remains of the Day" is why I hate unreliable narrators.
Also, "The Murder of Roger Ackroyd", Agatha Christie: "Reader, I murdered him..."
But let's not go down this rabbit hole.

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Originally Posted by issybird View Post
Noel Strachan in A Town Like Alice tells a straight story and he's both important yet tangential to the main story.
That fits the criteria. I've read everything by Nevil Shute. He spins a good yarn for an engineer. "No Highway" gets high marks for being prescient about the dangers of metal fatigue in airplanes.
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