Reading Ishiguro Today: Suspicion and Form

Literary studies in the twenty-first century have been characterized by a restlessness and dissatisfaction with everyday practice of criticism. This essay argues, firstly, that interpretative strategies brought to light recent debates about critical methods can enhance our understanding Kazuo Ishiguro's fiction, secondly, his fiction can, turn, help us appraise value, as well limitations, these polemical interventions.