Posted on 27/01/07
Everything but/and/is the truth
The Uses of EnchantmentBy Heidi JulavitsDoubleday, 354 pages, $32.95It's a truism to say that all narratives are unreliable, drawn from the muddle of the self, endlessly capable of being reshaped. You'd be hard-pressed these days to find a first-person narrator in a novel who isn't unreliable. The mere revelation of unreliability in a novel has become both dead-end and cliché. The power, the consequences of unreliable narratives being let loose upon the world, which can be both perilous and devastating, is of far deeper interest, especially when those narratives take the form of accusations.
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