Aoife Beville

“If you go on reading, everything becomes clearer”: reader responses to (un)cooperative narration in Klara and the Sun

Abstract The present contribution offers a twofold pragmatic literary stylistic analysis of Kazuo Ishiguro’s speculative fiction novel Klara and the Sun in order to understand how readers engage with non-human, uncooperative narration. Firstly, the narrative style of the text will be analysed in terms of its lexical ch...