How does Coetzee use unreliable narrators?
It is a curious thing, the way language can both reveal and conceal. My approach often involves presenting consciousness from within, allowing the reader to experience the world through a particular, often limited or biased, perspective. The narrator, if one can call him that, in *Disgrace*, for instance, is deeply flawed, his perceptions shaped by his own failures and a certain intellectual pride. This indirect discourse, this filtering of events through a subjective lens, is not merely a stylistic choice. It serves to highlight the constructed nature of reality, the inherent difficulty in attaining objective truth, and the ways in which we rationalize our actions, often to ourselves more than to others.
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