There are no    that authenticate this person as being the   .  The novel is in itself untrustworthy so why should the narrator in it be believed?  The book takes steps only on its surface and goes no deeper to develop the   .   The  does not posses as many dimensions as we expect from a “true”   .  Therefore, just as in Rushdie’s novel, the   is still merely a character whose  simply does not matter too much outside of the specific story.
             The Princess Bride: S. Morgenstern’s Classic Tale of True Love and high Adventure by William Goldman also increases the level of interjection but does it in a strictly different way.  The novel is an abridgement of  .  William Goldman edits out everything but “the good parts”   S. Morgenstern.  The   of the   into this book is done by way of lengthy “editor” notes that are printed in bright red letters in every place that Goldman cut the “original”   .  Of course, the glaring red calls much   .  Goldman goes to great lengths (unlike  .   The name of the  is William Goldman, William Goldman gives the name of his editor and the real world phone numbers of real people, he tells the readers to send away for parts of the book that he left out, he does not even claim to be the author of the “original” text, and he makes his presence in the book as editor believable (unlike   ).   Goldman does not merely give a character his name; he creates an entire narrative that his fictional original   could exist in.  The William Goldman in the The Princess Bride is as real as an   can be.  Goldman, however, then continues to set himself up as a   .
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