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Top 10 unreliable narrators
The novelist Henry Sutton provides, to the Guardian, a list of 10 notable fictional narrators who make a plaything of the reader's trust. "Something strange," he writes, "happened to unreliable narrators in the mid-20th century: they became a little more reliably unreliable, and a lot nastier."
In the top slot, naturally: Humbert Humbert. (Missing: Ian McEwan's maddening Briony Tallis.)
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Joshua Rothman is a graduate student and Teaching Fellow in the Harvard English department, and an Instructor in Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government. He teaches novels and political writing.
