Narration, Detective Fiction, Fiction, Jonathan Coe, Mark Haddon.
Curious, as Haddon appears to satirise ‘proper novels’: “In proper novels people say things like, ‘I am veined with iron, with silver and with streaks of common mud. ….’ What does this mean? I do not know” (5). Self-consciousness is both a convention of postmodernism and a device which Haddon and