Unreliable narrator

Rarity: Uncommon

A topic a little better known than average, read and translated beyond its own country.

Rarity follows how well known the article is: its views on the French and English Wikipedia over a year, and the number of languages it exists in.

At a glance

Class

Invention

Domain

Science and technology

Knowledge cost

2

In collections

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What Wikipedia says

In literature, film, and other such arts, an unreliable narrator is a narrator who cannot be trusted or whose credibility is compromised. As a narrative technique, it can be found in a wide range from children to mature characters.

Excerpt from the Wikipedia article “Unreliable narrator”, under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license. Read the article on Wikipedia

Image: Gustave Doré, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.