POST-HUMANITY IN KAZUO ISHIGURO’S KLARA AND THE SUN
POST-HUMANITY IN KAZUO ISHIGURO`s "KLARA AND THE SUN"

Summary/Abstract: This article sets out to investigate the parameters of identity that draw on the latest experiments in creating artificial intelligence, beyond the ontological, as reflected in Kazuo Ishiguro’s “Klara and The Sun”, a novel published in 2021. Ironically, the people in the household, the little girl’s parents and extended family prove to be more ‘robotic’ than the robot, in a sense, definitely more prescriptive in their daily rituals about the house and about town, hopelessly trapped in the ‘rat race’. In this dystopian parable of our post-human future, to use a coinage by Fukuyama, all-too-human robots get intertwined in a tragi-comical mode with our all-too-robotic fellow-men. The socio-psychological implications of such a social configuration (a live-in robot arrangement) are myriad. They are, inter alia, conducive to a plethora of interrogations about the nature of friendship per se, the nature of post-human relationships, the vagaries of solitude.

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