Return of the Fantastic
Note on Religiosity and Vision in “Klara and the Sun” by Kazuo Ishiguro
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https://doi.org/10.6093/sigma.v0i6.9486Keywords:
Kazuo Ishiguro, Klara and the Sun, E. T. A. Hoffmann, religiosity, fantasticAbstract
Klara and the Sun, Kazuo Ishiguro’s first novel since being awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2017, makes an original contribution to automaton literature by thematising religiosity and the sacred. In this way, the Japanese-British novelist is led to a confrontation with the tradition of the fantastic genre, of which the dense intertextual network linking Klara and the Sun to E.T.A. Hoffmann’s Der Sandmann is an example. Compared to this antecedent, Ishiguro re-evaluates vision, allowing him to recompose its polarities, reintroducing the project of reconciliation of rationality and irrationality underlying the fantastic genre.
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