Unreliable Narration as Proof of Authenticity in an Incomprehensible World: Observations on Shida Bazyar's Drei Kameradinnen

Abstract

This article aims to demonstrate that the narrative unreliability in Shida Bazyar's Drei Kameradinnen. It keeps an eye in the 21st century in Central Europe discursively and formulats incomprehensibility of the world and the self, a mistrust of objectivity, of the ability to objectify and to communicate the own point of view. The leading thesis is that fantastic digressions, self-corrections, gaps, the simultaneity of several truths, references to reality and their refraction, as well as breaks in fiction, refer more solidly to a reality that is considered incomprehensible than a closed novel plot could have achieved.