鏡に映る世界 : Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go
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Kazuo Ishiguro's latest novel, Never Let Me Go (2005) depicts a science-fiction-like world in which human cloning is widely practiced in order to supply organs for "normal" people. Clones are a relatively new motif in works of fiction, but other forms of artificially-made semi-humans, such as androids, robots, and cyborgs, have been popular protagonists in various forms of fiction. These semi-humans often look quite like human beings, but they lack something necessary to make them completely human. In many cases, what they don't have is a "soul, " although the definition of this is not always clear. For us human beings, these semi-humans are always the Others, whether they are congenial or hostile - or so it seems. What these works really reveal, however, is that the differences between human beings and semi-humans are very subtle, and even those differences often blur. In Never Let Me Go, through the narration of Kathy H., the reader is made to see the world through the viewpoint of the Others, or clones, and uneasy though such an experience may be, Kathy's delicate narrative captivates us so deeply that the assumed difference between Kathy and the reader, or between clones and human beings, diminishes. The reader eventually realizes that this is a story, not of the Others, but of ourselves. Discussing other fiction dealing with semi-humans, as well as Never Let Me Go, this paper examines the relationship between human beings and semi-humans, especially clones.
- 2006-11-20
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