2 page essay 55

How is Notes from Underground by Dostoevsky emblematic of the “unreliable narrator” concept, and what is Dostoevsky’s point in making him so “unreliable”?

“In literature and film, an unreliable narrator (a term coined by Wayne C. Booth in his 1961 book The Rhetoric of Fiction) is a literary device in which the credibility of the narrator is seriously compromised. This unreliability can be due to psychological instability, a powerful bias, a lack of knowledge, or even a deliberate attempt to deceive the reader or audience. Unreliable narrators are usually first-person narrators, but third-person narrators can also be unreliable.”

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