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The unreliable narrator

An unreliable narrator creates productive tension between what is told and what is true, forcing readers into active interpretation and rewarding attention to tone, omission, and contradiction. This technique works not through deception but through fidelity to how consciousness actually works—partial, self-interested, and often blind to its own blindness.

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