There's something uniquely exhilarating about puzzling together the truth at the hands of an unreliable narrator.
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A compelling story, even if factually inaccurate, can be more emotionally compelling than a dry recitation of the truth.
One of the fun things about unreliable narrators is they can be funny. You can admire things about them and laugh with them.
Surely the job of fiction is to actually tell the truth. It's a paradox that's at the heart of any kind of storytelling.
An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling lie.
The real problem is arranging that experience in a way that tells a story, which is just incredible enough to be interesting, but credible enough to be believed.
If you're a writer, you know there are ways in which we don't know what we're doing at all. We're working out mysteries in a sort of poetic realm, and hoping that if a story is honest, if you're dragging the deep truth out of yourself, then something good and profound might come out of it.
Truth is quite constricting, in a way. You endlessly see at the start of a film 'This is a true story'.
There are many reasons I love novels with multiple narratives. In novels where the events are filtered through the consciousness of a single 'reliable' narrator, I often wonder, is this the whole story? What could be missing here?
Truth is more peculiar than fiction. Life is really a startling place.
When one is frightened of the truth then it is never the whole truth that one has an inkling of.
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