![]() ![]() From the East to the West: Probing into Ishiguro's Geography This diachronic approach is necessary to understand Never Let Me Go, and the creation of a deliberately non-referential elsewhere which has never been so close to our here and now. Thus, we will first focus on Ishiguro's novels from A Pale View of Hills to When We Were Orphans to show how reflection, refraction or mirror-effects lead to a reflexion on the specificity of the reader's position in Ishiguro's narratives. Probing into the arcane of the self and self-representation tends to connect more and more with collective issues which relate to a society, and with his last novel, to humanity. ![]() Ishiguro's work is also well known for the tension between memory and identity it systematically explores on different modes but with the constant backdrop of individuality versus collectivity. 1“Elsewhere” is everywhere to be found in Ishiguro's fiction, but this paper will try to contend that, in his latest work, there is a progression as he crosses a frontier in terms of referential reality. ![]()
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