An unreliable narrator is a narrator, whether in literature, film, or theatre, whose credibility has been seriously compromised. The term was coined in 1961 by Wayne C. Booth in The Rhetoric of Fiction. While unreliable narrators are almost by definition first-person narrators, arguments have been made for the existence of unreliable second- and t...
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An imaginary storyteller or character who describes what he witnesses accurately, but misinterpets t
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An unreliable narrator is a storyteller who 'misses the point' of the events or things he describes
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The narrator’s unreliability might be obvious to the reader throughout, it might be revealed gradually, or it might come as a revelation that provides a major plot twist. Common examples are Vladimir Nabakov’s Humbert Humbert from Lolita and Alex from A Clockwork Orange. A lesser known example is Micky DeWitt from Flank Street.
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A storyteller who is eventually revealed to have been concealing the truth, or even mis-stating it (unintentionally or deliberately)
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