Comments on: Lies, All Lies

By: Jean Gazis

Jean Gazis — Mon, 26 Jun 2006 18:52:51 +0000

I can’t believe all those mentions of Atwood and not one of The Robber Bride – not one, but 3 narrators whose points of view of the same events and of each other don’t exactly mesh. I also second the vote for Remains of the Day. What about Life of Pi? Or almost all of Fay Weldon?

By: Thomas Schminke

Thomas Schminke — Mon, 26 Jun 2006 16:31:20 +0000

I definitely have to go with the “editor” of Nabokov’s “Pale Fire”

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Noli Irritare Leones » Blog Archive » Blogwatch — Mon, 26 Jun 2006 15:00:29 +0000

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By: trishka

trishka — Sun, 25 Jun 2006 18:44:31 +0000

my all time favourite is the unnamed first person narrator of daphne du maurier’s “rebecca”.

when i was a young romantic impressionable teenager & first read the book, i completely did not understand the way that she, and the society they lived in, was shielding maxim from justice. it wasn’t until i re-read it as an adult that i realised there was more to it than a “happy” ending to an unconventional love story.

By: just visiting

just visiting — Sun, 25 Jun 2006 01:16:42 +0000

Ok, I’ll throw out two:

The narrator of Jonathon Strange and Mr. Norrell is awesomely hilarious.

And how is it that no one has mentioned the governess from Turn of the Screw? That lady is super loco!

By: casey

casey — Sat, 24 Jun 2006 05:29:19 +0000

I vote for Kate in David Markson’s Wittgenstein’s Mistress. Damn I love that book.

By: W. Kiernan

W. Kiernan — Sat, 24 Jun 2006 01:52:29 +0000

mersault: (There needs to be some sort of conference to get an official spelling of Dostoyevsky in English.) Absiolutely not. This God damn standardized orthography has already gone way way too far. Now no one carries a pencil anymore; everybody's typing everything and it's all coming out spell-checked in digitally-perfect standardized fonts How is one supposed to type slurred speech or regional or foreign accents if everybody spells everything the same with mathematically identical handwriting alla time? huh? These weird foreign names, best of all the ones transliterated from a different alphabet, are our last few chances to bust out. Hands off meerkat, I'm goin down fightin!

By: Phersu

Phersu — Fri, 23 Jun 2006 20:48:04 +0000

@43 Yes, the voices in Isidro Parodi are great.

Nelly, in Wuthering Heights, makes me love Heathcliff in spite of everything.

The narrator in Maupassant’s Le Horla.

By: Christopher M

Christopher M — Fri, 23 Jun 2006 20:31:40 +0000

Patrick Bateman, the narrator and main character of Ellis’s American Psycho.

By: W. Kiernan

W. Kiernan — Fri, 23 Jun 2006 19:51:40 +0000

The unreliable narrators who make me laugh the best are all of the clientele of H. Bustos-Domecq’s jail-cell detective Don Isidro Parodi.