Kazuo Ishiguro and Max Frisch: Bending Facts in Unreliable and Unnatural Narration

Zuzana Fonioková author Monika Fludernik editor

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Peter Lang AG

Published:30th Jul '15

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Since the late 1990s unreliable narration has garnered popularity in narrative theory and has sparked a lively debate among scholars. This book traces the theoretical discussions surrounding narrative unreliability and examines the relationship of unreliable narration to antimimetic techniques of portraying self-deception. Standing on the border between classical and postclassical narratology, the study analyses Kazuo Ishiguro’s and Max Frisch’s innovative narrative strategies, offering new perspectives on their œuvre and on unreliable narration as a narratological concept. A comparison of the methods Ishiguro and Frisch employ to explore the psychology of their narrators reveals a fascinating parallel in their development as novelists.

«The project carried out through the book deserves credit on several accounts.»
(Stefan Iversen, Journal of Literary Theory JLT - online 2017)

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ISBN: 9783631660508

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 440g

268 pages

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