Reviewing And Reflecting-The Internationalized Writing Of Kazuo Ishiguro

Kazuo Ishiguro, a Japanese British writer, is renowned as one of the Three Greatest Immigrants in British Literature together with Salman Rashid and V. S. Naipaul. Kazuo Ishiguro belongs to immigrant writers and is usually classified as a post-colonial writer, however, whose works depict neither conflicts between immigrants and the mainstream society as other immigrant writers nor conflicts between ex-colonies and suzerains as other post-colonial writers. On the contrary, he defines himself to be an internationalized novelist, aiming to portray universal human experience. Therefore, by virtue of Kazuo Ishiguro's writing intentions and novel texts but not his ethical identity, to conduct a comprehensive discussion and research helps better understand the values and human concerns from his novels, on the basis of his attention to human's living conditions and his pursuit of being engaged in emotional communication with different readers in his internationalized writingThe internationalized views of Kazuo Ishiguro are inspired by the recognition of islands'consciousness crisis and the desire for new internationalism. And Kazuo Ishiguro grows up in contact with varied cultures and in a family background lacking of immigrant mentality, which helps him to free from British and Japanese frames, and not to be restricted by showing conflicts between immigrants and the mainstream society, but to pay attention to human's living conditions. These factors jointly generate his internationalized consciousness and distinct him from numerous Asian immigrant writers.Kazuo Ishiguro pictures a floating world in his novels, where individuals are confronted with the awkwardness of living and the alienation of existence. The awkwardness of individuals'living results from the paradoxical relationship between individuals and the society, just as in An Artist of The Floating World and The Remains of The Day, individuals only play as inappropriate tragedies because their selection of values is crashed down during social change and they can neither restore the past nor can they adapt to the present society. At the same time, the confusion o time and space in modern society accelerates the alienation between individuals, just as in The Unconsoled and When We Were Orphans, individuals tie themselves up in their respective loneliness and depressiveness and gain no comfort from desires and refusals, thus becoming lonelier and more depressive.While describing the unavoidable living conditions, Kazuo Ishiguro shows his reflections on the predicament of human existence as well. In Never Let Me Go and The Buried Giant, he wishes that individuals would redefine life and living, and tries to make the floating individuals directly faced with the misfortune in life which in turn would be part of living and power of progressing. His novels show the predicament of human existence but without negative attitude toward life. Instead, the writer agrees to take such predicament by love and memory and continually proceed with life.Kazuo Ishiguro, as a writer of immigrating experience, does not limit his eyes on immigrants but looking at ordinary people. He depicts the awkwardness of living and the alienation of existence and faces up to the predicament, by which he shares his views and thoughts on life with various readers.