“이런 일이 일어나는 방식은 신이나 알겠지”: 이시구로의 『나를 보내지 마』에 나타난 이야기

Abstract

This paper aims at analyzing Kazuo Ishiguro’s arguably second most popular novel, Never Let Me Go, focusing on the structures and influence of the stories in it. The novel has the narrative structure knitted with many made-up stories and ‘theories’ the clones fabricate and disseminate. So it looks crucial in understanding the narrative to figure out the reasons the clones produce the stories and the functions of them in their individual and communal aspects. The clones keep making stories in order to understand their circumstances separated from a broader context and to find out their identities. Though they seem to have no interest in revolting against humans, we can infer from their habit of story making that they would create myths and stories which would eventually give them a group identity.