THE ARTISTIC LANGUAGE, STYLE, AND LINGUOPOETIC FEATURES OF KAZUO ISHIGURO'S NOVELS

Abstrak

Kazuo Ishiguro, the British-Japanese Nobel Laureate (2017), occupies a singular position in contemporary world literature. His novels — from A Pale View of Hills (1982) to Klara and the Sun (2021) — share a deep commitment to exploring the interior lives of characters who are unable or unwilling to articulate their most profound experiences directly. This paradox — that emotional reality is expressed through its systematic suppression — constitutes the defining feature of Ishiguro's artistic language. To read his fiction is to become attuned to what is withheld as much as what is said, to the weight of silence as much as the weight of words