On The "Mist" In Ishiguro Kazuo's Novels

Mist is a situation that everyone continuously confronts in his life but keeps pursuing a way to break.Literature serves human beings in a way of bridging over reality and fiction,however,it has the side effect to put us in the same situation of being lost in a mist,in which we blind while see,and we lose while find.In Kazuo Ishiguro’s literature world,mist is not only an image to heighten atmosphere or a metaphor,but also a writing technique and a view to see the world.In Ishiguro’s unreliable narration,mist is the keynote,and it represents a misty life.In Ishiguro’s novels,mist indicates isolation,but also unveils its perplexity.Kazuo Ishiguro uses monologue rather than polyphony.He blurs settings in his fiction by using mist as a structure,which creates heaviness,repression and absurdity.This technique corresponds to his standpoint of focusing on individual’s emotion rather than history and politics.He soaks his protagonists in the perplexing mist and let them drown.Fortunately,they all find their ways out in the end.Ishiguro is displaying to the readers how mist works in our mind and emotion,and how we can survive from drowning in our pitiful heart——to accept and to forget.This article seeks to reveal how the mist is constructed and deconstructed in Kazuo Ishiguro’s fiction world,divided into three parts: mist in psychology,in literary image,and in writing technique.The author claims that Ishiguro’s usage of mist as a metaphor and an art technique is a great breakthrough in contemporary literature because it breaks through the tradition and moves beyond modernism to postmodernism.It’s an attempt to practice de-contextualization and de-politicization.Ishiguro is a sculptor of time and memory.Along with his idea of mist,Ishiguro is conveying his concern towards individuals and their self care and self redemption.Follow his trail,we can rise our minds to a global society and seek a universal way of spiritual redemption and relief.