The figure of the narrator in The Mark of the Angel: An Unreliable Narrator? Cover Image

La figure du narrateur dans L’Empreinte de l’ange : un narrateur non fiable?
The figure of the narrator in The Mark of the Angel: An Unreliable Narrator?

Author(s): Izabela Front
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Studies of Literature
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego
Keywords: Nancy Huston; unreliable narration; humanism; poetics

Summary/Abstract: The present article seeks to analyse the narrator’s role in Nancy Huston’s novel published in 1998, The Mark of the Angel. What is particular about the narrator in question are his cynical opinions that go against Huston’s ethos, emerging from her essays. Instead of being the author’s spokesperson, the narrator is only an element of the novel’s complex structure, which serves to implicitly show the man’s value, among different textual perspectives.

  • Issue Year: 15/2015
  • Issue No: 4
  • Page Range: 253-259
  • Page Count: 7
  • Language: French