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    Question Help: Book suggestion - evil unreliable narrator

    Does anyone know a text written originally in English that is written in either first-person or third-person that has an unreliable narrator that is violent, evil and nearly machiavellic, and focuses on the characters evil nature? I am looking for a character like the Dwarf in Pär Lagerkvist´s "the Dwarf".

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    There's the Broken Empire Trilogy by Mark Lawrence, but it's not exactly high literature, it's quite pulpy fantasy.
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    Quote Originally Posted by tomfyhr View Post
    Does anyone know a text written originally in English that is written in either first-person or third-person that has an unreliable narrator that is violent, evil and nearly machiavellic, and focuses on the characters evil nature? I am looking for a character like the Dwarf in Pär Lagerkvist´s "the Dwarf".
    Check out the novel A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess. To understand A Clockwork Orange you need the nadsat glossary.

    http://soomka.com/nadsat.html



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    My Idea of Fun by Will Self, The Wasp Factory by Iain Banks, Vernon God Little by DBC Pierre,

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    John Lanchester The Debt to Pleasures
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    Quote Originally Posted by Jackson Richardson View Post
    John Lanchester The Debt to Pleasures
    Do you know what the dark motive the protagonist acquires over the course of his journey? Wikipedia says something that he the protagonist dark motives are unraveled. Do you know what they are?

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    The Turn of the Screw by Henry James

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    Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov (it was based on a story originally written in Russian but I think the novel itself was first written in English).

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    Quote Originally Posted by tomfyhr View Post
    Do you know what the dark motive the protagonist acquires over the course of his journey? Wikipedia says something that he the protagonist dark motives are unraveled. Do you know what they are?
    Sorry, Tom. It is a long time since I read it and can't remember. All I can remember is finding it funny in a very dark way. Don't believe everything you read on Wikipedia.
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    I have no idea of it.

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    Notes on a Scandal by Zoe Heller.
    According to Aldous Huxley, D.H. Lawrence once said that Balzac was 'a gigantic dwarf', and in a sense the same is true of Dickens.
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