«Klara and the Sun»: Reconfiguring the Gaze through a Robot

Authors

  • Giorgia Buso Ca' Foscari University of Venice

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.13136/2724-4202/1415

Keywords:

Anthropocene, Earth System, Ishiguro, Klara and the Sun, Robot

Abstract

The complex themes raised by reflections on the Anthropocene will be investigated in Ishiguro's novel Klara and the Sun (2021) in a narratological perspective that will explore the relationships between the agents of an «Earth System» (Latour 2015), which in the novel highlight a necessary reflection on our relationship with the Other, human/non-human. Through the perspective of a robot, an effect of estrangement is created in the text thanks to which the reader can understand new truths in the relationship between nature and culture.

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Published

2023-12-23

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Section

Monographic Section