Discuss the function of errata or 'unreliable narration' in Salman Rushdie's "Midnight's Children".

In Salman Rushdie's critical essay, '"Errata": or, Unreliable Narration in "Midnight's Children"', he comments that 'It is by now obvious, I hope, that Saleem Sinai is an unreliable narrator, and that "Midnight's Children" is far from being an authoritative guide to the history of post-independence India.' Throughout the course of this essay I shall be examining the techniques Rushdie uses to create the unreliable narrator, his authorial purpose, and the effect the …showed first 75 words of 1850 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1850 total…conclusion, it seems that the unreliable narrator in "Midnight's Children" has many functions. Rushdie employs the technique as a channel for developing and representing his views on historical legitimacy, the importance of memory in reconstructing a story, and his rejection of the India of the communalists. Rushdie himself believed that 'the reading of Saleem's unreliable narration might be [...] a useful analogy for the way in which we all, every day, attempt to "read" the world' .