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- Title
Umani, androidi, divinità. I simulacri di Kazuo Ishiguro.
- Authors
Milone, Giulio
- Abstract
This paper discusses Kazuo Ishiguro’s latest novel Klara and the Sun. This paper contends that the book tackles the politics and ethics of human enhancement through technology while simultaneously challenging the anthropocentric view of the world. This latter point is discernible in the decision to narrate the story through the eyes and vocabulary of a human simulacrum, that is, through Klara’s naïve yet attentive perspective. This paper also argues that Ishiguro concocts a moral and oblique apologue on the supposed uniqueness of humans through a clever manipulation of generic tropes and rhetorical devices, both of which go into constructing Klara’s peculiar gaze. The analysis will benefit from a recontextualization of the novel’s themes and forms within the author’s body of work. If The Remains of the Day and Never Let Me Go are evidence of an interest in the perspective of subsidiary and inhuman figures like, respectively, butlers and clones, Klara and the Sun initially moves in between the same subdued territories only to enact a different take on these themes, ultimately staging a confrontation between humans and androids, and their relationship with external entities framed as supreme beings, such as the titular Sun.
- Subjects
ISHIGURO, Kazuo, 1954-; WORLDVIEW; GAZE; ENGLISH literature; ETHICS; HUMAN beings; ANTHROPOCENTRISM
- Publication
BETWEEN, 2022, Vol 12, Issue 24, p381
- ISSN
2039-6597
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.13125/2039-6597/5162