Volume IV Special Issue III March 2024

Name of Author : S Shanmugapriya, V Hemalatha

Title of the paper : Memory and Nostalgia in Kazuo Ishiguros Never Let Me Go

Abstract: Kazuo ishiguro is a British novelist, screenwriter, musician, and short-story writer. He is one of the most critically acclaimed and praised contemporary fiction authors writing in English, having been awarded the 2017 Nobel prize in literature. In its citation, the swedish Academy described Ishiguro as a writer who, in novels of great emotional force, has uncovered the abyss beneath our illusory sense of connection with the world. He was also employed as a community worker in Glasgow 1976, and after graduating worked as a residential social worker in London. In 1981 three of his short stories were published in Introductions 7 Stories by New Writers. It was shortlisted for both the Whitbread Novel Award and the Booker Prize for Fiction. His sixth novel is Never Let Me Go 2005. This article tries to bring out the elements of nostalgia and memory in Never Let Me Go.

Keywords : Friendship, Memory, community worker

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Page Number : 36-37