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No. 39 (2018): Intersexualidades em Questão

"Never Let Me Go" de Kazuo Ishiguro, ou a síndrome moderna de Frankenstein

Submitted
January 6, 2019
Published
2019-01-06

Abstract

Kazuo Ishiguro’s Nobel Prize for Literature 2107 published  Never Let Me Go in 2005. Its fictional content echoes the narrative theme of  the Faustian character of scientism and the radical dissociation between moral and science   Ishiguro's novel, situated in an undefined historical reality, explores the morally perverse applications of advanced bio technology, that of human cloning  with the shallow purpose  of perpetuating individual life. This essay examines Ishiguros’s subtle narrative strategies in order to create an ambiguous tension between the representation of a utopian space, Hailsham's boarding school, and the dystopian end for which it is intended.