Literature

It would be a mistake to read the narrator's unreliability as mere deception; rather, it enacts, formally, the very thesis the novel argues discursively — that memory is not a recording but a reconstruction, revised with each retelling to serve the needs of the present self. The reader, having been led to trust and then quietly betrayed by the same voice, undergoes in miniature the disillusionment the protagonist experiences across decades. Form and content, here, are not merely aligned but mutually constitutive.