Title : I read another book by the new Nobelist Kazuo Ishiguro, and was surprised to find a "Reader's Guide" with 11 questions at the end of the text.
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I read another book by the new Nobelist Kazuo Ishiguro, and was surprised to find a "Reader's Guide" with 11 questions at the end of the text.
Here's the book, "Never Let Me Go."
I've never seen this in a book before. I wonder when that was added and why. I suspect it's because there's at least one really obvious question that they wanted to get out there to say, yeah, we know, the author knows, and he meant to do that. It's your job to figure out why the book doesn't contain pages answering that question for you.
Spoilers after the page break:
The issue I'm talking about is raised in the 8th of the 11 questions in the Reader's Guide:
8. Some reviewers have expressed surprise that Kathy, Tommy, and their friends never try to escape their ultimate fate. They cling to the possibility of deferral, but never attempt to vanish into the world of freedom that they view from a distance. Why might Ishiguro have chosen to present them as fully resigned to their early deaths?
Funnily enough, I only noticed the Reader's Guide because I search the text for the word "death." The word "death" never appears in the book. The characters are clones, brought into the world for medical purposes, to donate organs, so the first-person character speaks of donations and "completion."
Anyway, here's video of Ishiguro answering the question that the Reader's Guide presents as question #8:
He doesn't really care about the special problem of the organ-donation clones. He's using their especially compressed lives as a way to create strangeness that opens up our thinking about our own life, which also unfolds and has meaning though we are certain to die.
"I just concertina-ed the time span through this device. A normal life span is between 60 to 85 years; these people artificially have that period shortened. But basically they face the same questions we all face.”
Here's the book, "Never Let Me Go."
I've never seen this in a book before. I wonder when that was added and why. I suspect it's because there's at least one really obvious question that they wanted to get out there to say, yeah, we know, the author knows, and he meant to do that. It's your job to figure out why the book doesn't contain pages answering that question for you.
Spoilers after the page break:
The issue I'm talking about is raised in the 8th of the 11 questions in the Reader's Guide:
8. Some reviewers have expressed surprise that Kathy, Tommy, and their friends never try to escape their ultimate fate. They cling to the possibility of deferral, but never attempt to vanish into the world of freedom that they view from a distance. Why might Ishiguro have chosen to present them as fully resigned to their early deaths?
Funnily enough, I only noticed the Reader's Guide because I search the text for the word "death." The word "death" never appears in the book. The characters are clones, brought into the world for medical purposes, to donate organs, so the first-person character speaks of donations and "completion."
Anyway, here's video of Ishiguro answering the question that the Reader's Guide presents as question #8:
He doesn't really care about the special problem of the organ-donation clones. He's using their especially compressed lives as a way to create strangeness that opens up our thinking about our own life, which also unfolds and has meaning though we are certain to die.
"I just concertina-ed the time span through this device. A normal life span is between 60 to 85 years; these people artificially have that period shortened. But basically they face the same questions we all face.”
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