Revelation and unfolding of a dystopian novel: never let me go by kazuo ishiguro*
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2021
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The present study is an analysis of Kazuo Ishiguro’s dystopian novel Never Let Me Go (2005) from the perspective of narration and revelation techniques. Gustav Freytag’s dramatic structure is used in order to shed light on the crucial features of the narrative style of the novel and account for its plot development. With a brief literature review, the basic notions of Freytag’s dramatic structure and MarieLaure Ryan’s internal narrative points are introduced and then the analysis itself is provided through plot structure and reviewers’ analyses comments on the narrative style of the novel. Freytag’s dramatic structure and Ryan’s internal strategic points are scrutinized to show how the novel is introduced, constructed with complications to be solved by the reader, and then revealed. The main argument is that Ishiguro involves the manipulation of readers’ expectations through presentation, especially by spinning a set of complications and withholding certain information. The revelation part of the novel is teased out by its delicate links with the complications of the story. The conversational construction, the most salient complication of the story, illustrates how the foreshadowing strategy of Ishiguro works. Furthermore, it is discussed that removing context from narration is an important and complementary device for Ishiguro’s narrative style.
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Turkish Studies - Language and Literature
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