Shared Impasses: Aporia & Unreliable Narrators

Our best stories often come from unreliable narrators, which may be absurd, demented, pathological, playful, Socratic, or confuse us for other reasons. Going back to Socrates in Plato's Phaedrus: "enormous advantages now come to us through madness once it is given as a divine gift. In fact, the prophetess at Delphi and the priestesses at Dodona do a great deal of good for Greece, both privately and publicly, when they are mad, but they accomplish little or nothing when they are sound-minded." (244 b)
Mania can be a blessing, and aporia may cause us to pause, reexamine our assumptions, and reveal something new.

Join and discuss classic authors (workshop: erik@erikpeter.me) like Gilman, Poe, Plato, Plotinus, Gogol, Akutagawa and others. How do various unreliable narrators function as tools for discovery? What is the value of aporia?