Unreliable Narrators

Chapter 2 of THE SUSPENSE WORKBOOK w/Quiz.

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Reading Ice by Anna Kavan is like half-waking in someone else’s nightmare—obsession, not choice, drives the narrative. My latest Ridley Park post dissects the dream-logic. Explore it (if you can stomach it): Five chapters in…

https://ridleypark.blog/2025/09/03/ice-by-anna-kavan-five-chapters-in/

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The nice thing about being a stand-up autobiographer and reliably unreliable narrator is that I'll never have to sit down and laboriously write out my memoirs.

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When people talk about literary principles, it’s a great idea to have a solid example where it’s done well enough to be effective, but clearly enough - exaggerated enough - for the person learning the principle to see it easily.

Here is your “unreliable narrator.”

I’ve heard some people say Harry Potter was an unreliable narrator and that checks. He was manipulated into everything he did by people smarter than him and was led to believe and dedicate himself to said powers so of COURSE his take on things is going to be biased.

But it’s still tough to read it and see without someone bringing it up.

With this, though, at the end of it you get it. It’s plain as day but still super effective.

Oh man, I liked this a lot. It’s short but it packs a strong punch.

If you wanted, you could compare it to Breaking Bad where you watch someone fall down rung after rung into something bad.

In this case it’s madness at the hands of the patriarchy.

Fun fact: the author was put in the treatment prescribed in this book in real life similar to how the author of Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance spent time in asylum before writing her book and she did it as a bald critique of that treatment as the bullshit it was.

It’s great. Well worth reading and the closing line is creepy as hell.

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Art, “its own special reality”, and the unreliability of Charles Kinbote in Vladimir Nabokov’s “Pale Fire” (1962). #111Words #VladimirNabokov #PaleFire #Fiction #Novel #Literature #UnreliableNarrator #Aesthetics https://andrewjshields.blogspot.com/2024/06/art-its-own-special-reality-and.html
Art, “its own special reality”, and the unreliability of Charles Kinbote in Vladimir Nabokov’s “Pale Fire” (1962)

In Vladimir Nabokov's "Pale Fire" (1962), Charles Kinbote refers in one of his annotations to the late poet John Shade's poem "Pale Fire" to...