THE FEATURES OF MULTICULTURALISM IN THE NOVEL «NEVER LET ME GO» BY KAZUO ISHIGURO

Abstract

The article deals with features of multiculturalism in the artistic prose of the modern British writer Kazuo Ishiguro. The purpose of the article was a comprehensive analysis of the multiculturalism features of the novel ʺNever Let Me Goʺ: genre and style dominant, main motives are analyzed. A special place in the analysis is given to the study of personal chronotopes of the , who unite in the structure of the novel, and complete a general chronotope of the work. In the work of Kazuo Ishiguro, the signs of two cultures (eastern and western) are combined. The novel belongs to the literature of multiculturalism. In the product dominant existential motives: tiredness, abandonment, loneliness. The English context is presented at the content level, while the ʺeasternʺ is in poetic (minimalism of poetry, details, means of characterization of heroes, means of expressing the author’s intention, etc.). Narator describes history through his own perspective of vision, therefore, the work is characterized by psychological subjectivity. The novel features signs of a parable, a fantastic, philosophical work. The novel is characterized by synthetism, because the text is closely interwoven with signs of realistic, modernist, and postmodernist traditions.