unreliable narrator
A narrating character or storyteller in a story who provides conflicting, inaccurate,…A narrating character or storyteller in a story (such as a film, novel, play, or song) who provides conflicting, inaccurate, misleading, or otherwise questionable information to the audience or reader.
» As soon as we get on the topic of unreliable narrators, Tom always launches into a long spiel about Holden Caulfield.
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1 sensesA narrating character or storyteller in a story (such as a film, novel, play, or song) who provides conflicting, inaccurate, misleading, or otherwise questionable information to the audience or reader.
unzuverlässiger Erzähler, unzuverlässige Erzählerin
ненадёжный расска́зчикnenadjóžnyj rasskázčik, ненадёжный расска́зчицаnenadjóžnyj rasskázčica
Examples
1 sentencesAs soon as we get on the topic of unreliable narrators, Tom always launches into a long spiel about Holden Caulfield.
Translations
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Origin
Apparently coined by the U.S. literary critic Wayne Clayson Booth (1921–2005) in The RhetoApparently coined by the U.S. literary critic Wayne Clayson Booth (1921–2005) in The Rhetoric of Fiction (1961): see the quotation.
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Forms
plural: unreliable narrators| Singular | unreliable narrator |
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See also
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