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Cruelty Is Bad: Banality and Proximity in Never Let Me Go
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July 1, 2007
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One of the signature effects of Kazuo Ishiguro's fiction is a moment when a character behaves with sudden, inexplicable, and astonishing cruelty-not to a stranger, but to an intimate. These episodes are always a bit cumbersome to cite, as the reader cannot fully understand quite how bad or how inexplicable the cruelty is without a lot of detail being let in. It's almost as if the emotional violence were so intolerable that, even in the act of repeating the story, Ishiguro also resisted giving it a memorable anecdotal form that could be easily abbreviated, cited, and circulated. In the passage that follows, for example, nothing more happens than a silence, an absence of gesture. Yet this ...
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