Klara and the Reader: Artificial Subjectivity in Kazuo Ishiguro’s Klara and the Sun
摘要
This chapter argues that in Klara and the Sun, Ishiguro’s use of an artificially intelligent narrator creates a unique space for the dramatization of controversial questions around literary subjectivity and the limits of the human. In particular, the book has special relevance for ethical discussions about the treatment of digital and textual subjectivities as other minds. While some version of this could be said for any representation of artificial intelligence, this book has special relevance to controversies about the virtuality of literary selfhood because of its particular narratorial and structural qualities and its unique mobilization of readerly attentiveness and identification.