Unreliable Narrator and Embedded Narratives in the Fiction of Kazuo Ishiguro

طنطاوي, تغريد حامد محمد; النادي, عبد الجواد; حلمي, هاني

doi:10.21608/jartf.2023.299144

	Unreliable Narrator and Embedded Narratives in the Fiction of Kazuo Ishiguro
المجلة العلمية بکلية الآداب
Volume 2023, Issue 51, April 2023, Pages 1077-1096 PDF (448.62 K)
Document Type: أبحاث علمیة
DOI: 10.21608/jartf.2023.299144
Authors
تغريد حامد محمد طنطاوي¹; عبد الجواد النادي²; هاني حلمي³
¹كلية الأداب , جامعة طنطا
²أستاذ اللغة الإنجليزية بكلية الآداب _ جامعة طنطا
³مدرس اللغة الإنجليزية بكلية الآداب _ جامعة طنطا
Abstract
This study aims at examining the two narrative techniques of an unreliable narrator and embedded narratives in Ishiguro's depiction of friendship and his characters' quest for identity. This can be displayed in Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go (NLMG). It will also be applied to some short stories of Ishiguro's Nocturnes of which the following stories "Crooner", "Come Rain or Come Shine" and "Nocturne" will be chosen. Dzhumaylo has praised Ishiguro for his unique use of "the so-called English boarding school fiction as a ‘platform’ for science-fiction dystopia" in NLMG. In contrast to utopia, the dystopian novel often predicts a future that is either pessimistic or full of horror through what is going on in recent times. Lochner emphasizes, "Literary dystopia is to caution against false optimism and the devastating effects of a scientific utopia by projecting present developments imaginatively into the future"(225).
Keywords
Unreliable Narrator; Embedded Narratives; Quest for Self; Dystopia

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