Narrative Unreliability In Kazuo Ishiguro’s The Remains Of The Day And Never Let Me Go

Abstract

Narrative unreliability is a significant and powerful technique in fiction, playing a crucial role in shaping the reader's experience, deepening thematic exploration, and enhancing the complexity of characters. Kazuo Ishiguro is renowned for his masterful use of narrative unreliability, particularly in exploring themes of memory, identity, and self-deception. This paper aims to analyze use of narrative unreliability in Ishiguro’s   two famous works The Remains of the Day and Never Let Me Go where concepts of unreliability and implied author offered by Wayne Booth will be used. The study attempts to analyze how this device of narrative unreliability is used to explore the themes of memory and identity.