The Lying Narrator as Literary Weapon: How Contemporary Fiction Turns Deception Into Revelation
The most compelling storytellers in modern fiction are, by design, the least trustworthy. Across a growing body of contemporary novels, authors are weaponizing narrative deception not to mislead readers for sport, but to excavate psychological truths that straightforward storytelling could never reach. This examination explores the mechanics behind the unreliable narrator and why readers keep returning to voices that betray them.