The faith in textual or linguistic truth has been shaken by Derrida and others long ago, and in the case of a novel there can be no claims to reality or reliability unless we have at least two narrators. The Victorian novel not yet making use of the postmodern literary device of multiple narrations, the criticism of unreliability must disperse through the air in the case of “Wuthering Heights”, in which the concern for reliability, to make things worse, is not on material reality, but on moral reality -even the existence of which is doubtful. The term “unreliable narrator”, in fact, is a hollow one when it is admitted that each narrator or author that makes moral judgments is the product of a certain age, psyche or political-economic mode and thus each narration is “unreliable”, wrought with the narrator’s politics. As there is nothing outside the text, there is nothing outside politics,
The faith in textual or linguistic truth has been shaken by Derrida and others long ago, and in the case of a novel there can be no claims to reality or reliability unless we have at least two narrators. The Victorian novel not yet making use of the postmodern literary device of multiple narrations, the criticism of unreliability must disperse through the air in the case of “Wuthering Heights”, in which the concern for reliability, to make things worse, is not on material reality, but on moral reality -even the existence of which is doubtful. The term “unreliable narrator”, in fact, is a hollow one when it is admitted that each narrator or author that makes moral judgments is the product of a certain age, psyche or political-economic mode and thus each narration is “unreliable”, wrought with the narrator’s politics. As there is nothing outside the text, there is nothing outside politics,