| − | '''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. | + | '''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]]''. |