The Time And Space Narrative In A Pale View Of Hills

Kazuo Ishiguro,a Japanese British writer who won Nobel Prize in Literature,is known as one of “the three most prominent immigrant writers” paralleling Salman Rushdie and V.S.Naipaul,also as one of “Britain’s greatest 50 writers since1945” listed in the Times.His debut A Pale View of Hills was published in 1982 and won Winifred Holtby Memorial Prize,which lays the foundation for the formation of the narrative style in his later literary works.It can be said that “memory” is a consistent theme of all the compositions of Kazuo Ishiguro.The protagonist re-examines her past and resolve the identity crisis through unreliable memorial narrative.This research will focus on how Kazuo Ishiguro wrote the novel through time-space narrative.The introduction gives a review on the author’s life background and the main content of A Pale View of Hills,as well as literature review home and abroad,especially the study of A Pale View of Hills.This part will put forward the idea and innovation of this paper after defining and introducing the theory of “time and space narrative”.Chapter one analyzes the features of time-space structure in A Pale View of Hills from the perspective of narratology.In this novel,Kazuo Ishiguro breaks the traditional linear time-space structure,giving the work a deeper and more complex theme and different aesthetic meanings in a time-space interlaced structure.Chapter two is the construction of narrative time and space.Through the analysis of the art of construction of narrative time and space,this chapter attempts to explore the obscurity and hint behind the unreliable narrative of the heroine.Moreover,the advancement of time and space structure of A Pale View of Hills is also explored according to the time-space structure of the text.Chapter three focuses on the intersection of historical narrative and fictional narrative in A Pale View of Hills.This chapter will utilize Paul Ricoeur’s narrative theory to explore time and space narrative in this novel,especially the intersection of personal experience of historical narrative and fictional narrative,the time configuration in fictional narrative and the breakthrough in the boundary of time and space.