Eva Luna and Why I Love Unreliable Narrators
I’ve recently finished a book that was recommended to me a couple of years ago, Eva Luna , and it has really made me think about the reliability of narrators in novels. Obviously, we’ve all read novels in which we’ve thought the narrator was unreliable, but when do we draw the line on whether or not a narrator is unreliable? If they aren’t reliable, why do we read the novel in the first place? For this post, I wanted to discuss how Eva Luna specifically utilizes an unreliable narrator and how I think it helps the plot, as well as why I think I enjoy reading literature with unreliable narrators so much. Before starting with how Eva Luna is an unreliable narrator, I wanted to give a quick summary of the novel. In Eva Luna , we get a thorough narration of Eva’s life through her own perspective, and it is accompanied by the information that she is a storyteller, which already brings up some large alarms about how accurate the depictions of her life may be. She l...
