Sentence examples for of fictional narrators from inspiring English sources

First, unreliability is not the sole preserve of fictional narrators.

Its humour, too; aside from being one of the most poised and cultivated of fictional narrators, Jacques Deza is also one of the most amusing.

All six are written from the point of view of fictional narrators.

This ongoing struggle highlights the narrative line of "Rise the Euphrates," which centers in the memories of Casard, the grandmother of the fictional narrator, Seta Loon, now 33, as she re-creates the past and advances into the present.

Kingsolver's prose is, as always, rich in music and texture, and the historical upheavals of the epoch resonate through the medium of her fictional narrator.

While some of these authors were candid about what they were up to, Edmund Morris's ludicrous 1999 book "Dutch: A Memoir of Ronald Reagan" - which recounted Ronald Reagan's life through the prism of a fictional narrator, who liked to talk about himself - was sold as "the only biography ever authorized by a sitting president".

Each chapter described the travels of the fictional narrator to a little-known Jewish community in some exotic corner of the world.

It is told from the viewpoint of a fictional narrator in correspondence with an English gentleman, and each letter concerns a different aspect of life or location in the British colonies of America.

But all is fair in the comic novel: farce, punning, spoof, fictional narrators with weirdly distorted points of view — these have been stock in trade since "Don Quixote" and "Tristram Shandy".

Like reading about bad behavior (as opposed to encountering or engaging in it), a large part of the pleasure of negotiating the words and motives of an unreliable fictional narrator derives precisely from the relatively consequence-free nature of the encounter.

Today, the surname of Diedrich Knickerbocker, the fictional narrator of this and other Irving works, has become a nickname for Manhattan residents in general.