Unreliable Narrator

[hawky454]

Unreliable narrator - Wikipedia

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The new Netflix movie, with Amy Adams is a good example in film. (Woman in The Window) It was OK, but seemed like a rip-off of Hitchcocks "Rear Window" to me.

That’s the one I was thinking of! It came to me after posting, then I just saw your post. Ha!

 

[puff_not_snuff]

You know at the end of the book. (Girl on The Train, etc.)

I never read that but I did read The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. The narrator of that book seemed reliable.

 

[mawnansmiff]

"Many of the books I read employ an unreliable narrator according to Amazon reviews. Wouldn't it be better for the authors to use a reliable narrator so to achieve a reliable narration?"

If you are being told a story by a narrator then how does that tally with "many of the books I read...."?

Puzzled of Cornwall

Regards,

Jay.

 

[puff_not_snuff]

"Many of the books I read employ an unreliable narrator according to Amazon reviews. Wouldn't it be better for the authors to use a reliable narrator so to achieve a reliable narration?"

If you are being told a story by a narrator then how does that tally with "many of the books I read...."?

Puzzled of Cornwall

Regards,

Jay.

Do you mean that if you read a series of books they should only be considered one?