![]() ![]() ![]() He has been equally successful in creating female and male central characters. Throughout his literary work, Ishiguro has created a wide range of characters, settings, and plots and has worked in many genres. Even then, however, pieces of the central mystery remain left to the reader to put together. What exactly it is that hovers in the dark as each novel opens is a mystery that unravels only slowly, and the process keeps the reader on edge until a final climactic revelation. For each, there lurks in the past an experience that may invalidate the narrator’s projected sense of self and destroy the vestiges of the individual’s human dignity. Readers soon discover, however, that these central voices are rather unreliable in their accounts of past reactions to crises. A common link among Kazuo Ishiguro’s (born 8 November 1954) novels is the prominence of the first-person narrator, through whose meandering thoughts the story unfolds. ![]()
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