The Exaltation of Ordinariness in the Novels of Kazuo Ishiguro
Kazuo İshiguro Romanlarında Sıradanlığın Yüceltilmesi

Author : Fırat YILDIZ
Number of pages : 476-483

Abstract

Kazuo Ishiguro, one of the prominent figures in contemporary English Literature, attracted the attention of world literature with his unique fiction and narrative technique. It is a sign of its success that his novels are rewarded with honourable awards. His novels The Remains of the Day and Never Let Me Go are adapted to cinema. Ishiguro has his own writing techniques. Some of them are as follow: the unreliable narrator, the characters confronting their past and the exaltation of ordinary. In addition to these Ishiguro has his own time, place and characters. Ishiguro has seven published novels. This study focuses on five of the novels. Ishiguro brings ordinary and unimportant issues to the forefront and emphasizes these issues at length. He uses this method of exaltation of ordinary in the majority of his novels. Ishiguro’s unique style provides a different place for him among his contemporaries. The exaltation of ordinariness gives a different mood to his novels. In this regard, the five novels covered in this study are remarkable. Ishiguro uses this method quite often in some of his novels. His novels such as The Unconsoled and The Remains of the Day have completely been fictionalised as exaltation of the ordinary. This topic is so comprehensive that it cannot be limited to a particular article, that’s why the most crucial points are mentioned in this study.

Keywords

Kazuo Ishiguro, Exaltation, Ordinariness.

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