Analyzing and Interpreting Literature / Unit 20 AIL 1935 short lesson, about 20 seconds
What Conrad's Own Frame Invites
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The idea
Unit ten established that a frame narrative puts a listener between reader and tale, so the reader weighs the telling as well as the events. The book's own structure invites scepticism about its narrator, and later readers extended that scepticism to the book.
In practice
The structure invites the scepticism.
Where people slip
Later readers extended it further.
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