The New Classics: Narrative crazyness! Lies, murder and more lies - Who can you believe?

In this video, we discuss a masterful novel by Ian Pears: 'An instance of the fingerpost': a murder mystery set in 17th century Oxford told by four distinct narrators - who's telling the truth? Will we get to know the truth? Is truth, in fact, ever knowable? Thanks for watching, commenting, liking, subscribing! Zero AI content :) --------------------------------- 0:00: Plan of the novel 05:41: More than murder and history 06:10: What is truth? 07:35: Science 09:10: 4 narrators 14:29: 2nd reason: objective? 15:47: 3rd reason: different voices 16:55: 4th reason: Real history 19:38: 5th reason: meta-level 20:36: 6th reason: just…enjoyable