The essay explores the topic of narrative unreliability with reference to Ishiguro's The Remains of the Day. After a theoretical reassesment of the narratological category of narrative authenticity and (un)trustworthiness, the analysis focuses on the narrator's discourse unveiling his subtle strategies of double-talk.

"Inside (counter-)factuality: reassessing the narrator's discourse in Kazuo Ishiguro's The Remains of the Day"

BIGLIAZZI, Silvia
2007-01-01

Abstract

The essay explores the topic of narrative unreliability with reference to Ishiguro's The Remains of the Day. After a theoretical reassesment of the narratological category of narrative authenticity and (un)trustworthiness, the analysis focuses on the narrator's discourse unveiling his subtle strategies of double-talk.
2007
Kazuo Ishiguro; Unreliable narration
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