The death of the unreliable narrator

How we killed the narrator, and why we need it back

Modernism killed the omniscient narrator, and postmodernism deconstructed the very idea of narrative. Unreliable narrators have become the norm in literature and film, from Nabokov's Lolita to David Fincher's Fight Club. But this is changing. Metamodernism is reclaiming the reliable narrator in innovative and unexpected ways.

 

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Thomas Martinez 14 December 2023

Thank you for sharing!