Ford Madox Ford’s The Good Soldier and the Ethics of Perspective
Ford Madox Ford’s The Good Soldier and the Ethics of Perspective

Summary/Abstract: This study attempts a reading of Ford Madox Ford’s 1915 novel, The Good Soldier, as sample of the much-neglected modernist interest in the ethics of narration. Starting from a definition of the ethics of narration as an investigation by means of fictional representation of the essentially intersubjective and relational character of the act of telling, it examines the effects that Ford’s choice of narrative voice (which constructs point of view exclusively through the discourse of a radically unreliable narrator, whose moral and intellectual authority are highly questionable) has on the emergence of an “impressionistic” worldview that exploits what Dorothy Hale has termed fiction’s“inherent capacity for otherness.”

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