The Loneliness Theme Of Kazuo Ishiguro's Representative Works

Kazuo Ishiguro as a key member of the contemporary British novelist,with its profound thought connotation and the unique style of art works in English literature occupy the important one seat,Due to his Japanese and British identity,Kazuo Ishiguro and Naipaul and Rush Dee is known as the "Three Heroes of British Immigrants in the Literary World" and won the 2017 Nobel Prize in Literature.His prize was:Ishiguro's novel,with its huge emotional power,explores the abyss hidden under the illusion of our connection with the world.Loneliness is the state of human existence.Questioning and reflecting on the subject of "loneliness" has always been one of the important motifs in the creation of world writers.Because of his special cultural background and growth experience,the Japanese-British Kazuo Ishiguro urged him to have a unique self-experience and profound understanding of "solitude",and showed it vividly in the works through delicate brushwork.Ishiguro's novels take character experience as the main object of expression,describing the inner fear of human beings about the lack of self,and profoundly expressing the lonely mental state of human beings under anonymous authority,but also expresses in the lonely writing that human beings strongly resist consciousness against loneliness.This thesis focuses on the four representative novels of Kazuo Ishiguro,namely "An Artist of the Floating World"," When We Were Orphans","The Unconsoled" and"The Buried Giant",and uses Eric Fromm's loneliness theory as Support,using textual reading method and inductive summary method,to explore Ishiguro Kazuo's questioning and reflection on the theme of "solitude".The introduction introduces the status quo of kazuo ishiguro's research on novels,combs Eric fromm's loneliness theory and explains the significance and limitations of the topic.The first chapter discusses the types of lonely characters in kazuo ishiguro's novels:marginal people who have always been unable to enter society,redundant people who have been discarded by society,and rootless people who lack cultural identity due to lack of memory.Based on three different types of lonely people,the author analyzes the nature of loneliness in ishiguro's novels.The second chapter mainly discusses the causes of loneliness in kazuo ishiguro's characters from the perspective of fromm's loneliness theory.The rupture of family ties causes individuals to fail to grow smoothly;the lack of social identities makes it difficult for individuals to find their own social position;a sick society cannot connect with people normally;and anonymous authorities assimilate individuals and lose themselves.It is revealed that Kazuo Ishiguro conveys that the lack of essential connection between human beings and society is the root cause of the general loneliness of human individuals.The third chapter analyzes the origin of human loneliness from the philosophical perspective,that is,the individual's lack of self-existence.Meanwhile,it analyzes how flom proposes that love,as a means to fight against loneliness,is reflected in kazuo ishiguro's novel,and how human beings can reconcile and coexist with loneliness through their own actions when "love" is hard to obtain.The conclusion,on the basis of summarizing the whole text,points out that kazuo ishiguro intentionally runs the theme of loneliness through his entire creative process,not only to reveal the plight of modern people facing loneliness,but also to provide a reference for people who are also at the crossroads of loneliness and do not know where to go.