• Vijay P Prince

The research article discusses on the postmodern concept of Unreliable narrator by analyzing two of the significant short stories by the renowned Japanese writer Ryunosuke Akutagawa. The unreliable narrator is the one whose narration is seriously compromised owing to certain interests. Such a narrative is characterized by ambiguity, misjudgment manipulations and lies. This is a typical postmodern tool that establishes the deconstructionist view that there is no absolute truth or center. Here, the reliability in narration is highly problematic as there are multiple versions of truth existed in the discourse. Further, the paper attempts a comparative study between the short stories and the film Rashomon as an adaptation. The film contributed a new technique to the literary world, called Rashomon effect which is the contradictory interpretations of the same event by different people. This technique encapsulates so beautifully the key problems of the postmodern condition, i.e. the multiplicity and unreliability of different narratives.

Unreliable Narrator, Rashomon Effect, Postmodernism, Adaptation, Multiplicity, Ambiguity

"Adaptation Study and Postmodern Analysis of Rashomon", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.5, Issue 12, page no.593-602, December-2018, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1812386.pdf

"Adaptation Study and Postmodern Analysis of Rashomon", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.5, Issue 12, page no. pp593-602, December-2018, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1812386.pdf