unreliable narrator

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /(ˌ)ʌnɹɪˌlaɪəbl nəˈɹeɪtə/    美 /ˌʌnɹəˌlaɪəb(ə)l ˈnɛˌɹeɪtɚ/|/-ɹətɚ/|/-nəˈɹeɪtɚ/|[-ɾɚ]

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A narrating character or storyteller in a literary or other artistic work (such as a film, novel, play, or song) who provides conflicting, inaccurate, misleading, or otherwise questionable information to the audience or reader.
    — [page 158] For practical criticism probably the most important of these kinds of distance is that between the fallible or unreliable narrator and the implied author who carries the reader with him in judging the narrator. […] [page 159] Unreliable narrators thus differ markedly depending on how far and in what direction they depart from the author's norms; […]

词形变化

unreliable narrators plural

词源

Apparently 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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