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I took it Klara DOES know she's in a junkyard. But her different perceptions and expectations for her life made her be more at peace with ending up there than we are for her -- pitying her. Despite the deliberate emotional "flatness" of much of the novel, the final scene made me tear up unexpectedly. So did the final scene in the Buried Giant. Anyone else? I know Ishiguro is a very British novelist, but having lived in and studied Japanese culture a bit, I feel that he is a master at the Japanese concept of "mono no aware" - "the pathos of things" (especially their impermanance), an understanding that loss is painful and an acceptance of it, an appreciation of it. And that that is what is punching me in the gut at the end of these novels.
I like this idea. And it is possible she is conflating the manager and Josie as her memories merge, and she thinks about how love can bridge across time as it did for the Coffee Cup lady and Umbrella man. However, there was a least some manager in this tableau, as she knew what happened to Rosa, and the store.
Oh I had never considered this perspective, but I like it a lot.
your interpretation - that it may well be Josie that Klara encounters in the Yard (like the film The Father) - has made the novel so much richer for me. thank-you
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I took it Klara DOES know she's in a junkyard. But her different perceptions and expectations for her life made her be more at peace with ending up there than we are for her -- pitying her. Despite the deliberate emotional "flatness" of much of the novel, the final scene made me tear up unexpectedly. So did the final scene in the Buried Giant. Anyone else? I know Ishiguro is a very British novelist, but having lived in and studied Japanese culture a bit, I feel that he is a master at the Japanese concept of "mono no aware" - "the pathos of things" (especially their impermanance), an understanding that loss is painful and an acceptance of it, an appreciation of it. And that that is what is punching me in the gut at the end of these novels.
I like this idea. And it is possible she is conflating the manager and Josie as her memories merge, and she thinks about how love can bridge across time as it did for the Coffee Cup lady and Umbrella man. However, there was a least some manager in this tableau, as she knew what happened to Rosa, and the store.
Oh I had never considered this perspective, but I like it a lot.
your interpretation - that it may well be Josie that Klara encounters in the Yard (like the film The Father) - has made the novel so much richer for me. thank-you
