Abstract

PICORNELL, Mercè. BEYOND PATHOGRAPHY. THE HONESTY OF NON-RELIABLE NARRATOR IN THREE GRAPHIC STORIES ON MENTAL HEALTH. perifrasis. rev.lit.teor.crit. [online]. 2022, vol.13, n.25, pp.115-135.  Epub Feb 26, 2022. ISSN 2145-8987.  https://doi.org/10.25025/perifrasis202213.25.07.

The "truth" or "reliability" of autobiographical accounts of illness has been a recurring issue in the characterizations of pathography. In this paper, the commentary on three comics about experiences of psychiatric hospitalization -Dormo molt, by Maria Manonelles, Manicomio, by Montse Batalla and Xevidom, and Penelope, by Abel Carrasco- allows me to postulate that unreliability can be a strategy to build a narration that is both honest and vulnerable. This vulnerability conditions not only the position of the author but also that of the reader, recipient of a story where the border between the plausible and the imaginary is blurred.

Keywords : comics; reliability; mental health; narratology; Spain.

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