ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the key concepts discussed in the preceding chapters of this book. The book provides a great effort in getting deeply into fields and topics that she or he may have been somewhat or wholly unfamiliar with. It focuses on modulations that question narrative reliability from the point of view of judgment or ethics, that is, they graduate narrative distance and trust based on moral values and ideological interpretations. The concept of narrative unreliability has become very sophisticated in postclassical narratology. Narrative enigmas produce the effects observed by Ricardo Piglia that narrative gaps invite narrative by conjecture, which is one of the most effective modes of questioning narrative reliability. As in the case of Absalom, Absalom!, these often invite polyphony since it helps compare and contrast accounts, and produces degrees of reliability in the different voices.
