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Univrsity PIM , Banja Luka , Bosnia and Herzegovina
Univrsity PIM , Banja Luka , Bosnia and Herzegovina
We live in a world of great expectations and therefore, it is inevitable that the modern man is faced with problems such as fear of change, re-examination and finding excuses. On the other hand, the best way to escape from the reality is to let oneself indulge in another dimension in which everything can be corrected and beautified, and that dimension is daydreaming. All of these are some of the motifs we find in Ishiguro's novel The Remains of the Day, but there is one leitmotif that pervades and unifies all the other motifs, and that is (self-)deception. Stevens, as the main character of the novel and the narrator in the first person singular, has his goal, and that is to justify his actions to both the readers and himself, and the goal of this paper is to establish the extent to which he succeeded in doing so. We will perform the analysis from the narratological aspect, within which we will refer to Genette's narrative theory. In addition, we will refer to Barthes's notion of a narrative contract that will shed light on the position of the reader in the novel Remains of the Day.
Kazuo Ishiguro, The Remains of the Day, narratology, (self-)deception, daydreaming, justification, unreliable narrator.
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