I recommended Denis Johnson's The Stars at Noon to
a friend, who liked the novel but said the female
narrator was an asshole. Accustomed as we now are
to Humbert Humbert narrators, I wonder if anyone
can suggest the first asshole narrator in literature?
I was thinking of the falsely-named narrator of
Rameau's Nephew by Diderot. Then wondered if the
Pardoner in Canterbury Tales fit the bill. Maybe
some of the narrators in Lucian's satires? Anybody
have any notions?
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