On Wed, August 16, 2006 1:40 am, Charlie Williams
wrote:
> What I don't like are narrators who deliberately
withhold information
> purely for the purposes of tension and mystery
etc.
> I like an unreliable
> narrator should be that way because of psychological
reasons, not
> artistic. This is all going a bit meta.
Have to agree with that, but I've always had problems with
finding the line between withholding and having an unreliable
narrator. At what point does the fact that the narrator is
deceiving the reader become withholding information?
Anyone?
-Stephen Blackmoore
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