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Rotting Melancholy: The False Utopia of Kazuo Ishiguro's "The Buried Giant"
2018
Kazuo Ishiguro’s The Buried Giant (2015) constitutes an interesting contemporary reworking of the motif of melancholy. In the universe of the book – a combination of Arthurian setting with the elements of fantasy – people experience the peculiar state of melancholic oblivion brought upon them by the mysterious fog. Although this fog enables a peaceful coexistence of previous enemies, it also causes the feelings of overwhelming uneasiness and unidentified menace. In this context, Ishiguro’s vision appears to be the representation of the false utopia where memory is sacrificed to achieve ostensible perfection. This paper discusses the approaches to melancholy, both ancient and more contempora…
Perfection et interprétation dans The Remains of the Day (Kazuo Ishiguro, James Ivory), ou les débordements génériques de l'obsession
2010
Si les objets des obsessions de Stevens dans The Remains of the Day sont nombreux, celles-ci semblent toutes tendre vers un seul et même objectif : la perfection et l'humilité. Avec obstination et acharnement, Stevens sert son employeur, heureuse victime d'une emprise qui l'assiège autant qu'elle le définit. Ces premières formes d'obsession seront d'abord reliées à l'excès d'anglicité qui parcourt le roman, excès dont on s'efforcera de comprendre la logique de débordement comme étant à l'origine des stratégies vocales et visuelles de contrôle de Stevens, de l'écriture d'Ishiguro et de la mise en scène de James Ivory dans son adaptation filmique. Les obsessions premières de Stevens en cachen…
Reading Kazuo Ishiguro’s “Bewilderment Trilogy” as Bildungsromane
2018
Abstract In this essay, Kazuo Ishiguro’s “Bewilderment Trilogy” is read as a series of Bildungsromane that test the limits of that genre. In these thematically unrelated novels, characters reach critical points in their lives when they are confronted with the ways in which their respective childhoods have shaped their grownup expectations and professional careers. In each, the protagonist has a successful career, whether as a musician (The Unconsoled), a detective (When We Were Orphans), or a carer (Never Let Me Go), but finds it difficult to overcome childhood trauma. Ishiguro’s treatment of childhood in these novels foregrounds the tension between individual subjectivity and the formal st…