Spanish Abstract: Este artículo revisa algunos errores en los conceptos narratológicos recientes referidos a la noción de la narración fiable y no fiable, y a los narradores fiables y no fiables: defendemos aquí en su lugar la concepción original de Wayne Booth. ¿Qué es un narrador fiable? ¿Se trata de una voz narrativa cuya veracidad o coherencia ideológica merezca que confiemos en ella? No necesariamente. Llamamos a un narrador 'fiable' cuando la voz narrativa está respaldada y autorizada por los presupuestos ideológicos de la obra, o del autor implícito. Esto no significa que esa voz haya de ser 'fiable' en el sentido ordinario del término, dado que los presupuestos ideológicos de la obra o del autor implícito pueden a su vez ser no fiables en ese sentido.

La Narración No Fiable

Date posted: July 18, 2018  

https://papers.ssrn.com/abstract=3194101

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English Abstract: This paper revises some recent narratological misconceptions around the notion of reliable and unreliable narration and reliable and unreliable narrators, arguing in favour of a correct understanding of Wayne Booth's original conceptions of the same. What is an reliable narrator? Is it a narrative voice whose truthfulness or ideological coherence we can trust? Not necessarily. We call a narrator 'reliable' when the narrative voice is backed and authorized by the work's, or the implied authror's, ideological assumptions. This does not imply that it should be 'reliable' in the ordinary sense of the term... becasue the work's or the implied author's ideological assumptions may well be unreliable in their turn.

Note: Downloadable document is in Spanish.

Suggested Citation:

Garcia Landa, Jose Angel, La Narración No Fiable (Unreliable Narration) (2008). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3194101 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3194101

_____. "La narración no fiable." In García Landa, Vanity Fea 11 June 2008.

         http://garciala.blogia.com/2008/061102-la-narracion-no-fiable.php

         2008

_____. "La narración no fiable." Ibercampus (Vanity Fea) 11 June 2018.*

         https://www.ibercampus.es/la-narracion-no-fiable-36955.htm

         2018

_____. "La narración no fiable." Social Science Research Network 18 July 2018.*

         https://ssrn.com/abstract=3194101 http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3194101

         2018

         Cognition & the Arts eJournal 18 July 2018.*

         https://www.ssrn.com/link/Cognition-Arts.html

         2018

         Literary Theory eJournal 18 July 2018.*

         https://www.ssrn.com/link/English-Lit-Theory-Criticism.html

         2018

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