Cover -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Part One: Establishing Fictional Facts -- 1.1 Bending Facts in Unreliable Narration -- 1.1.1 Potential Textual Signals of Unreliable Narration -- 1.1.2 Types of Unreliable Narration -- 1.2 Delineating the Borders of Unreliable Narration: Possible-World Theory and World-Constructing Homodiegetic Narrators -- 1.3 Relevant Philosophical, Psychoanalytical, and Psychological Theories and Concepts -- Part Two: The Retold and Relived Identities of Kazuo Ishiguro's Narrators -- 2.1 The Distorted Self-Portrait: Unreliable Narration in An Artist of the Floating World -- 2.2 The Contagious Wound: Unnatural Narration in The Unconsoled -- 2.3 The Dream Come (Almost) True: Unreliable and Unnatural Narration in When We Were Orphans -- Part Three: The Invented Identities of Max Frisch's Narrators in Comparative Perspective -- 3.1 The Guided Coincidence: Unreliable Narration in Homo faber -- 3.1.1 Homo faber and Ishiguro's novels -- 3.2 The Man without a Past: Two Levels of Potential Narrative Unreliability in Stiller -- 3.2.1 Stiller and Ishiguro's novels -- 3.3 The Search for a Story: The Narration of Possibilities in Mein Name sei Gantenbein -- 3.3.1 Gantenbein and Ishiguro's Novels -- Conclusion -- Works Cited.