unreliable narrator

短语

不可靠的叙事者

发音

UK /(ˌ)ʌnɹɪˌlaɪəbl nəˈɹeɪtə/
其它
US /ˌʌnɹəˌlaɪəb(ə)l ˈnɛˌɹeɪtɚ/
US /-ɹətɚ/
US /-nəˈɹeɪtɚ/
US /-ɾɚ/

词形变化

unreliable narrators 复数 unreliable narrators

释义与例句

n.
  1. 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.

    不可靠的叙事者

词源

Apparently coined by the U.S. literary critic Wayne Clayson Booth (1921–2005) in The Rhetoric of Fiction (1961): see the quotation.

来源:wiktionary