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Topic Reading-Vol.3251-3/6/2021

英語で世界を知ろう!Topic Reading

2021/03/06 Topic Reading-Vol.3251-3/6/2021

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Sir Kazuo Ishiguro warns of young authors self-censoring out of ‘fear

He was born in Nagasaki, Japan, and moved to the UK when he was five. He later became a UK citizen, won the Nobel Prize in Literature, and received a knighthood in 2019. Over his four decades of writing career, he wrote only eight novels and one book of short stories. As he admitted, Sir Kazuo Ishiguro is indeed a privileged and established author. Now, his long-awaited new book, Klara and the Sun, was published. It is about an AF, or artificial friend, who is bought as a companion for a 14-year-old girl who suffers from a possibly terminal illness. Like his renowned novel, “Never Let Me Go,” it is not written from his immediate experience. In fact, his first novel was about a Japanese mother who lost her daughter by suicide. It certainly was a bold attempt for a young man to write about the emotions of a mother. He now encourages young writers not to overly censor themselves or limit themselves within their immediate experience. Also, even though he is optimistic about the future of AI, he wonders if it might bring about the next big ideology like communism or Nazism whose consequences cannot be controlled by humans.

Enjoy reading the article from an interview with a Nobel prize laureate.

https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-56208347

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