Kazuo Ishiguro, The Buried Giant

Paola Trimarco (The Open University)

The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 1.2.1.09: English Writing and Culture: Postwar and Contemporary Britain , 1945-present.
Vol. editors: Kerry Myler (Newman University), Jenni Ramone (The Nottingham Trent University)

Dates

First circulation or publication Mar 2015

Places

United Kingdom (Country of Origin)

Genres and Modes

Fantasy
Novel

Resources

Kazuo Ishiguro’s The Buried Giant (2015) marked a departure for the author as his first novel to be classified by many as fantasy, depicting characters taken from the legend of King Arthur. The work’s importance has emerged largely from the questions it raises about the boundaries between literary fiction and various fantasy genres.

The Buried Giant is Ishiguro’s seventh novel and was released at a time when the author was well-recognised as a Booker-prize winner and the writer behind two popular novels, The Remains of the Day (1989) and Never Let Me Go (2005), which had been adapted into films. Regarded as a writer of literary fiction, publishers Faber and Faber released the …

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Citation: Trimarco, Paola. "The Buried Giant". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 18 January 2017 [https://staging.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=35615, accessed 26 November 2024.]

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