This study provides thorough textual and narratological analyses of Ishiguro's novels A Pale View of Hills (1982), An Artist of the Floating World (1986), The Remains of the Day (1989) and The Unconsoled (1995), and positions these works ...
"Interrogations multiples, incertitudes, remises en causes ponctuent le voyage initiatique sinueux du personnage qui connaît les affres du doute voire du néant.
... elusive Empire and the Barbarians who live in the desolate sur- roundings and who are believed to be preparing an attack against the frontier settlement - into an allegory which can be read in different ways . As no precise background ...