Svet očami autistu a debila: (Ne)Spoľahlivý rozprávač v dielach The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time Marka Haddona a Kniha o cintoríne Samka Táleho

• Authors: Lucia Ringerová

Title variants

EN

THE WORLD AS SEEN BY AUTISTIC INDIVIDUAL AND IMBECILE

• Languages of publication: SK

Abstracts

EN

Both analysed novels have a narrator who is uniquely positioned — Christopher, the narrator of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time in Mark Haddon’s novel, is an autistic teenager striving to solve the „murder“ of his neighbour’s dog. Samko, the narrator of Kniha o cintoríne by D. Kapitáňová, is an adult suffering from mild mental retardation. The aim of this article was to analyse the tendentious (un)reliability of both narrators and its interconnection with narrators’ mental disorder. At first glance, both narrators appear to be unreliable because of their naturally different perceptions of the world. Nevertheless, the analysis and interpretation of the given works has shown that Christopher has proved himself to be a tendentiously reliable narrator, whereas Samko might be regarded as a tendentiously unreliable narrator.

Keywords

SK

nespoľahlivý rozprávač; osi (ne)spoľahlivosti; autizmus; debilita; Mark Haddon; Samko Tále

EN

unreliable narrator; axes of (un)reliability; autisms; moronism; Mark Haddon; Samko Tále

Discipline

• PHILOLOGY_&_LINGUISTICS: PHILOLOGY & LINGUISTICS

• Publisher: Charles University in Prague, Faculty of Arts, Czech Republic
• Journal: Svět literatury – Časopis pro novodobé literatury (World of Literature – Journal for Modern Literatures)
• Year: 2015
• Volume: 51
• Pages: 36-46

Contributors

author

Lucia Ringerová

• Ústav jazykových kompetencií Prešovskej univerzity v Prešove, Slovakia