(If you think so )(1917), takes up the problem of competing claims to truth, he gradually pushes the claims into such extreme contradiction that if one version is true the proponent of the other is not simply mistaken, or lying, but mentally unbalanced. ... When the local Prefect demands that she must be either the one or the other'she answers that she is whom you believe me to be? ... "Are you satisfied??... Deciding who, if anyone, is morally responsible for this tragic cycle of events is made next to impossible by the novel's multiplicity of agent-narrators. ... The reader canno...

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