Unreliable narrator
A narration whose account cannot be fully trusted because of the narrator's bias, delusion, deception, or limited knowledge.
Unreliable narrator in fiction: 8 works
Alex narrates his own crimes in a self-justifying invented slang that colors all we see.
Offred's fragmented, revised account and the closing 'Historical Notes' undercut her reliability.
Leonard's amnesiac, self-deceiving perspective makes his account fundamentally untrustworthy.
Kathy's gentle, evasive retrospection withholds and softens the horror she describes.
The emotionally detached, memory-impaired narrator filters events through a compromised mind.
The biologist's compromised, changing perception makes her account uncertain.
Murderbot's wry, self-deprecating first-person voice colors and downplays events.
Klara's limited, literal machine perception filters and skews everything she reports.