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Unreliable narrator is a literary technique wherein doubt is cast, through the use of juxtaposed untruths and specious logic, on the narrator's account of a story and its truth. This is often done for the purposes of parody. A famous example of this technique is in John Kennedy Toole's Confederacy of Dunces.