%0 Journal Article
%T The Reliability of the Narrator in Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children and Gabriel Garcia Marguez's One Hundred Years of Solitude
%A Ronan McFadden
%J Opticon1826
%D 2008
%I Ubiquity Press
%R 10.5334/opt.050805
%X In the simultaneously fantastic and earthly world of the magical-realist novel, where telepathic powers are discovered through the clearing of snot, or where girls ascend to heaven while hanging out the laundry, how do the narrators of Gabriel Garc¨ªa M¨¢rquez¡¯s One Hundred Years of Solitude and Salman Rushdie¡¯s Midnight¡¯s Children attempt to convince the reader of the narratives¡¯ reliability? Can the reader really rely on the truth of such fantastic narratives? If not, what precisely are Garc¨ªa M¨¢rquez and Rushdie trying to tell us about the nature of supposedly reliable narrative and the truths it purports to contain?
%K narration
%K magical-realism
%U http://www.opticon1826.com/article/view/82