Study On Ishiguro Kazuo’s Novels From The Perspective Of Memory Writing

Kazuo Ishiguro,a famous contemporary British novelist,upholds the creative concept of internationalism and brings people many excellent literary works.His writing carries the sense of responsibility of a world literary writer,showing the common loss and anxiety of mankind in the current globalization.Kazuo Ishiguro is a writer who is good at writing memories.His works are often based on memories to structure novels,so memory writing has become a distinctive feature of Kazuo Ishiguro’s creation.The thesis uses the memory writing in Kazuo Ishiguro’s novels as an entry point for research.Through analysing the surface structure of memory writing,we can understand the real situation of the characters in the work in the real world,and gain insight into the modern people shown by the writer in his works.The existential dilemma of existence.The thesis is divided into four parts.The introduction part mainly introduces the research origin of the selected topic,and summarizes the current situation of research on Kazuo Ishiguro’s works at home and abroad using the theme-based review method,and explains the content,methods and significance of the research of the thesis.The first chapter of the thesis focuses on the narrative strategy of memory writing,which is mainly divided into three levels: one is to summarize the two presentation methods of memory writing,the retrospective presentation of personal memory and the metaphorical collective memory writing;the other is to discuss the non-competence of memory writing.The performance characteristics of reliable and unreliable narratives.Using the unreliable narrative theory of Wayne Booth and James Phelan,the unreliable narration in Kazuo Ishiguro’s works is summarized as the unreliable report of the narrator and the narrator’s Three performance characteristics of unreliable recognition and evaluation,and unreliable interpretation of the narrator;the third is to summarize the four main creative characteristics of Ishiguro Kazuo’s memory writing,which are first-person narrative,dual narrative spatio-temporal juxtaposition,memory fragment extraction,and individual emotions Emphasize.The second chapter of the thesis mainly discusses the eight novels of Kazuo Ishiguro,combining specific works to analyze the reality and psychological dilemmas faced by the protagonists of the novel in their different life situations.The two works of A Pale View of Hills and When We Were Orphans show people’s pursuit of lost identities;An Artist of the Floating World and The Remains of the Day show the loss of beliefs and values in the changing times;Never Let Me Go shows the conflict between technology and ethics through the tragedy of human cloning;The Un-consoled and Nocturnes: Five Stories of Music and Nightfall write about the dilemma of modern social artistic ideals and reality;The Buried Giant uses a legendary story to reveal the forgetting and searching of history.The third chapter of the thesis discusses the value and significance of memory writing in Ishiguro Kazuo’s works from the perspectives of humanistic care,aesthetic value and meaning in memory writing,combined with Ishiguro Kazuo’s personal experience and creative ideas.