Is Kazuo Ishiguro‘s The Remains of the Day the Work of a ―Naïve‖ or a ―Sentimental‖ Writer?
Is Kazuo Ishiguro‘s The Remains of the Day the Work of a ―Naïve‖ or a ―Sentimental‖ Writer?

Summary/Abstract: Kazuo Ishiguro, born in Japan and trained in England, is an instance of a writer who changed places without changing the Japanese narrative devices. In consonance with Ishiguro‘s writing techniques, Schiller‘s theory on naïve and sentimental writers suggests protocols for decoding intricate narrative devices through its insistence on writing spontaneously (the naïve writer) and on the artificial aspects of writing (sentimental writers). We will closely analyze Ishiguro‘s novel in relation to these two hypotheses with a view to showing that Japanese literature needs complex reading grids in order to have its profoundness and viability turned to good account.

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