unreliable narrator

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• Received-Pronunciation: /(ˌ)ʌnɹɪˌlaɪəbl nəˈɹeɪtə/
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• General-American: /ˌʌnɹəˌlaɪəb(ə)l ˈnɛˌɹeɪtɚ/
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• General-American: /-ɹətɚ/
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• General-American: /-nəˈɹeɪtɚ/
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• General-American: [-ɾɚ]
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• rhymes with (one pronunciation) -eɪtə(ɹ)
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Apparently coined by the U.S. literary critic Wayne Clayson Booth (1921–2005) in The Rhetoric of Fiction (1961): see the quotation.

32 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Armenian: անվստահելի պատմիչ (anvstaheli patmičʻ) — narrating character or storyteller who provides questionable information to the audience or reader
• Azerbaijani: etibarsız hekayəçi — narrating character or storyteller who provides questionable information to the audience or reader
• Azerbaijani: etibarsız rəvayətçi — narrating character or storyteller who provides questionable information to the audience or reader
• Chinese Mandarin: 不可靠的敘事者 /不可靠的叙事者 (bùkěkàodexùshìzhě) — narrating character or storyteller who provides questionable information to the audience or reader
• Dutch: onbetrouwbare verteller — narrating character or storyteller who provides questionable information to the audience or reader
• Dutch: onbetrouwbare vertelster — narrating character or storyteller who provides questionable information to the audience or reader
• Finnish: epäluotettava kertoja — narrating character or storyteller who provides questionable information to the audience or reader
• French: narrateur douteux — narrating character or storyteller who provides questionable information to the audience or reader
• French: narratrice douteuse — narrating character or storyteller who provides questionable information to the audience or reader
• French: narrateur incertain — narrating character or storyteller who provides questionable information to the audience or reader
• French: narratrice incertaine — narrating character or storyteller who provides questionable information to the audience or reader
• French: narrateur non fiable — narrating character or storyteller who provides questionable information to the audience or reader
• French: narratrice non fiable — narrating character or storyteller who provides questionable information to the audience or reader
• German: unzuverlässiger Erzähler — narrating character or storyteller who provides questionable information to the audience or reader
• German: unzuverlässige Erzählerin — narrating character or storyteller who provides questionable information to the audience or reader
• Greek: αναξιόπιστος αφηγητής (anaxiópistos afigitís) — narrating character or storyteller who provides questionable information to the audience or reader
• Indonesian: pengisah lancung — narrating character or storyteller who provides questionable information to the audience or reader
• Italian: narratore inaffidabile — narrating character or storyteller who provides questionable information to the audience or reader
• Italian: narratrice inaffidabile — narrating character or storyteller who provides questionable information to the audience or reader
• Japanese: 信頼できない語り手 (shin rai dekinai ka tarite) — narrating character or storyteller who provides questionable information to the audience or reader
• Korean: 믿을 수 없는 화자 (mideul su eomneun hwaja) — narrating character or storyteller who provides questionable information to the audience or reader
• Macedonian: неси́гурен раска́жувач (nesíguren raskážuvač) — narrating character or storyteller who provides questionable information to the audience or reader
• Macedonian: неси́гурна раскажу́вачка (nesígurna raskažúvačka) — narrating character or storyteller who provides questionable information to the audience or reader
• Polish: but see nieufny narrator — narrating character or storyteller who provides questionable information to the audience or reader
• Portuguese: narrador não confiável — narrating character or storyteller who provides questionable information to the audience or reader
• Portuguese: narradora não confiável — narrating character or storyteller who provides questionable information to the audience or reader
• Russian: ненадёжный расска́зчик (nenadjóžnyj rasskázčik) — narrating character or storyteller who provides questionable information to the audience or reader
• Russian: ненадёжный расска́зчица (nenadjóžnyj rasskázčica) — narrating character or storyteller who provides questionable information to the audience or reader
• Spanish: narrador sospechoso — narrating character or storyteller who provides questionable information to the audience or reader
• Spanish: narradora sospechoso — narrating character or storyteller who provides questionable information to the audience or reader
• Thai: ผู้บรรยายเรื่องผู้ไม่น่าเชื่อถือ — narrating character or storyteller who provides questionable information to the audience or reader
• Turkish: güvenilmez anlatıcı — narrating character or storyteller who provides questionable information to the audience or reader