Free indirect discourse is the literary form most faithful to bad faith.

Evidence

As Danièle Sallenave remarks so astutely in her “Foreword”: “Free indirect discourse provides the most exact and revelatory image of bad faith, that lie to oneself.” — Christine Daigle, Jacob Golomb (eds.), Beauvoir and Sartre, 547

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines the link between a literary technique and the existentialist concept of bad faith.
• XREF: connects to: Free indirect discourse can lock a novel into one character’s worldview — Peter Morey, Islamophobia and the Novel, 104; The narrator can smuggle contestable claims through free indirect speech — Peter Morey, Islamophobia and the Novel, 406

Broader Connections

• Free indirect discourse can lock a novel into one character’s worldview #expands (0.85) — Peter Morey, Islamophobia and the Novel, 104
• The narrator can smuggle contestable claims through free indirect speech #expands (0.80) — Peter Morey, Islamophobia and the Novel, 406