Unreliable Narration in Kazuo Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go (2005)

Abstract

In Kazuo Ishiguro's novel Never Let Me Go (2005), discusses the topic of medical revolutionary advances that touch human rights in the way it deals with the themes of human cloning. Although this was one of main themes raised by readers and critics, Ishiguro pointed out, that his work is not meant to be taken as a warning against science or bio technology. Thus, many readers wonder about what he really intended as a main theme especially that Never Let Me Go is rarely observed as a sci-fi novel. Human. Thanks to the uncanny nature of this novel's characters, the settings and narrational feature's proved an unprecedented uniqueness. Narration which is to be the main filed of this research, is the aspect that I would consider as the most interesting for me, and unreliable narration in particular. This research will take unreliability in Kazuo Ishiguro's novel Never Let Me Go (2005) as a theme and will examine it via the mechanisms of many approaches and viewed by the means of a set of the most influential theories.