The Clones’ Apprenticeship: Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go as a Bildungsroman
The Clones’ Apprenticeship: Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go as a Bildungsroman
Author(s): Carol GuesseSubject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Studies of Literature
Published by: Instytut Anglistyki Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Keywords: Kazuo Ishiguro;bildungsroman;science fiction;clones;post-humanism;
Summary/Abstract: This article considers as a Bildungsroman the 2005 novel Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro, which depicts the education of young clones in a boarding school in a 1990 suchronic England. It studies the main theoretical works about this type of writing in order to isolate some of its defining characteristics and then evaluate the possibility of an analogy between the fictional developments of humans and clones. It concludes that, even though the Bildunsgroman has strong ties with the changing nineteenth-century society, it has been adapted to other – even non-existing – environments.
Journal: ANGLICA - An International Journal of English Studies
- Issue Year: 25/2016
- Issue No: 1
- Page Range: 155-169
- Page Count: 15
- Language: English