敘述可靠性側重具體的文本策略,文學真實性側重總體的呈現效果。就修辭學路徑而言,敘述可靠性通過敘述者體現出隱含作者的修辭策略,讓文學真實性在敘述層面獲得保障;就認知學路徑而言,敘述可靠性有賴于讀者的視角機制,文學真實性是讀者形成視角機制的潛在基礎。如果考慮真實作者的因素,依靠隱含作者修辭或讀者認知的敘述可靠性又會出現新的情況,這些新情況導致文學真實性的多樣化。由于敘述可靠性和文學真實性的著眼點不同,敘述可靠性與文學真實性之間呈現出復雜的關系:或者是敘述可靠但給人感覺不真實,或者敘述不可靠但給人感覺真實。此外,隨著接受語境的變化,敘述可靠性和文學真實性自身也會發生變化。

Narrative reliability focuses on specific textual strategies, while literary authenticity highlights the overall effect of presentation. In terms of rhetoric, the former reflects the rhetorical strategy of the implied author through the narrator, so that the latter can be guaranteed on the narrative level. In terms of cognition, narrative reliability relies on the reader’s perspective mechanism, for which literary authenticity serves as the potential basis. Considering the factor of the real author, new situations regarding the narrative reliability of the implicit author’s rhetoric and the reader’s cognition will arise, which leads to the diversification of literary authenticity. Given that the focus of narrative reliability and that of literary authenticity differ, a complexity between narrative reliability and literary authenticity emerges: the narration is either reliable but unrealistic, or unreliable but realistic. On top of that, narrative reliability and literary authenticity are subject to the change of receptive context.