| In the movies, with their narrators and time-shifts, we accept much more agile storytelling. |
| Neither poor old Zack's whiskey nor all the puzzlings of narrators and readers will ever know what Zack did. |
| The narrators are often strangely limited third-person or unreliable first-person narrators, or there are multiple, shifting narrators. |
| The narrators relentlessly question their textual fellows as one version of a story challenges and even annihilates its counterparts. |
| The problem is that some Heldentenors are fine at projecting roles such as Tristan, but aren't natural narrators. |
| Even so, the book almost works, because Victor is one of the most unreliable narrators I've met, and he may or may not be having us on. |
