NOSTALGIC (MIS)REPRESENTATIONS IN KAZUO ISHIGURO’S THE REMAINS OF THE DAY
NOSTALGIC (MIS)REPRESENTATIONS IN KAZUO ISHIGURO’S THE REMAINS OF THE DAY

Summary/Abstract: Nostalgia is a recurrent theme in Ishiguro’s novels to the extent that it is more than a means to an end, a tool inextricably linked with the act of storytelling. Nostalgia is fully acknowledged by the characters who define themselves as nostalgic and thus become unreliable and deeply subjective storytellers. Stevens in “The Remains of the Day” revisits a past mainly comprised of other nostalgic trips into an even farther past. The novel is an example of how postmodern authors make use of fragmented, subjective and, in the end, inaccurate representations of history to tell their characters’ personal stories.

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