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The technique of writing one thing while telling the reader something else is indeed fascinating. To the examples above I would Kazuo Ishiguro's "The Remains of the Day", and also "An Artist of the Floating World". The first is narrated by a man who apparently cares only for formality and custom, but actually cares for someone else. The second is narrated by a man who feels guilt for betraying his mentor, and acts this out obliquely by apologising for his (tiny) part in Japan's wartime regime. Brilliant when it's done so well. I have tried to do this in a small way in some of my own writing, but it isn't easy.

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