Farewell To The Past To Re Looking For Self

Kazuo Ishiguro is a immigration contemporary British literature writer ,he was born in 1954 in Nagasaki Japan and emigrated to Britain with his family in 1960.He received"the typical British middle-class education"in England ,so he can skillfully use the standard English write novels and his language reserved and elegant. Kazuo Ishiguro was born and raised in the era coincided with the liberation of the Western Mind, a variety of literary theories such as psychoanalytic theory, postcolonial theory, postmodern theory, narrative theory, have been presented. Kazuo Ishiguro has also been impacted by such literary trends.My thesis will focus on The Remains of the Days, the most famous novel of Kazuo Ishiguro, analysis of psychoanalysis, new historicism, narrative theory, and other theories on the impact of Kazuo Ishiguro's novel. There are three parts in my thesis. The first part mainly introduces The Remains of the Days and the author. In the second part, there are three chapters. In Chapter One, I will focus on The Remains of the Days in the historical background. By the impact of British historical novels, Kazuo Ishiguro's novel has a"distinctive background feature", which consistent with the view of new historicism. Chapter two is concerned with modern psychoanalytic theory in Kazuo Ishiguro's work. The character of the novel——Stevens is a tragic figure in most of the early years and the trauma associated with his life and affect his later life. Reveal the pain is not the sole purpose of the author, he also wants to establish therapeutic hope. he hopes the character to face wounds and through the help of others the character was able to find the truth"self"in the dislocation. Chapter three is to study the narrative of The Remains of the Days. Kazuo Ishiguro uses"first-person memory narrative"in his novels. The memories are sad events of the past, so the narrator deliberately concealed the truth of early facts by intermittent narrative, and such deceptive are closely linked his narrative motivation .Kazuo Ishiguro tries to account for the unreliable narrator reveals the character's true motivation, to let readers know the true narrator.