An unreliable storyteller: how do I find it and why do I need it?

A new film adaptation of the British Henry James novel "The Turn of the Screw" has been released on Netflix - "The Ghosts of Bly Manor", the second season of the series "Ghosts of the Manor on the Hill". The text based on the plot was written at the end of the 19th century, tells the story of a young governess who takes care of two children in an estate remote from London and at some point becomes convinced that her pupils are haunted. The girl feels cornered, because she agreed to a well-paid job on one condition - she does not bother the children with their guardian's affairs and solves all problems on her own. Which she would have done if it hadn't been for the deaths of her predecessors and the strange ghosts around her! But no one sees these ghosts anymore.

It would seem like a normal horror story - why is it being filmed a dozen and a half times? The story is that "The Turn of the Screw" is a classic example of the theoretical term "unreliable narrator" in fiction. This technique was perfectly adopted by cinematographers, because the unreliability of the narrative is a fairly simple way to arrange dramatic storytelling in a work and chain you to a chair. But this is not the only purpose for which the authors use this technique. An unreliable story is an opportunity to show a variety of scenarios, to construct a memory or a story. This gives the effect of an imperfect work, where the reader or viewer acts as a co-author. The interpretation of such films or books directly depends on the reader and the viewer, and it is this that is the most interesting, because it demonstrates the interpretative potential of the work and stirs our brains. Therefore, good art should disturb and worry us.

I bet the first unreliable narrator in your life is a school story about a boy who screamed: "Wolves!" when there were no predators nearby. When that boy actually saw the wolves, no one believed him. After that, there comes a moment for a learning pause and a phrase.: "So don't lie, because soon they won't believe you."

My first unreliable narrator is Baron Munchausen, who tells me how his horse gets into a church steeple, so he has to harness a wolf to a sleigh, or how in the jungle he finds himself between an angry lion and a crocodile, and miraculously escapes by setting the animals against each other, so that the crocodile swallows the lion and suffocates. These stories are the lies of a real German baron who even came to Ochakov with the German army in the 18th century and loved to remember the past. This was also done by the ancient Odysseus, whom Homer calls clever for this. For the first time, the category of "unreliable narrator" appears in the literary theory of the sixties of the twentieth century in the text "The Rhetorical of Fiction" by Wayne Booth, however, the unreliable narrator became known to art much earlier. Les sports virtuels, disponibles 24 heures sur 24, offrent une alternative passionnante aux événements sportifs traditionnels. Pour parier sur ces compétitions simulées avec un budget doublé, pensez à utiliser le code promo 1xbet lors de votre inscription sur 1xBet. Ce code vous accorde un bonus de bienvenue de 100% jusqu'à 130€ utilisable sur l'ensemble des paris sportifs, y compris les sports virtuels comme le football, les courses de chevaux ou le tennis. Les événements virtuels sont programmés toutes les quelques minutes, vous permettant de parier sans interruption.