Unreliable Narrator - Notable Works Featuring Unreliable Narrators

Notable Works Featuring Unreliable Narrators

  • Martin Amis's Time's Arrow
  • Augusto Roa Bastos's I, the Supreme
  • Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights
  • Peter Carey's Illywhacker
  • Angela Carter's Wise Children
  • Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales
  • Wilkie Collins's The Moonstone
  • The works of Bret Easton Ellis, most prominently American Psycho
  • William Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury
  • F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby
  • Ford Madox Ford's The Good Soldier
  • Günter Grass's The Tin Drum
  • Kazuo Ishiguro's When We Were Orphans
  • Henry James's The Turn of the Screw
  • James Lasdun's The Horned Man
  • Anita Loos's Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
  • Vladimir Nabokov's Pale Fire
  • Mordecai Richler's Barney's Version
  • J. D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye
  • The works of Gene Wolfe, most prominently The Book of the New Sun and The Fifth Head of Cerberus
  • Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children
  • William Thackeray's The Luck of Barry Lyndon
  • Robert Graves's I, Claudius


Films with an unreliable point-of-view (or points-of-view):

  • Amarcord directed by Federico Fellini
  • Big Fish directed by Tim Burton
  • The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari directed by Robert Wiene
  • Fight Club directed by David Fincher
  • Hero (2002) directed by Zhang Yimou
  • Memento directed by Christopher Nolan
  • Rashomon directed by Akira Kurosawa

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