In the first part the narrators reveal and analyze their own natures as well as their corrective visions of the world. |
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. |
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. |
In the movies, with their narrators and time-shifts, we accept much more agile storytelling. |
Unlike the absconding narrators who skulk out of sight in most modern novels, James refuses to hide behind the mask of authorial anonymity. |