Join us for a friendly online taster lecture to support your current studies and find out what it might be like to study English Literature at university.
Session time: Wednesday 23 April, 11.10-11.55
In this English Literature session, Dr Bharat Tandon, Lecturer in Literature at University of East Anglia, will run an interactive talk for students on Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro.
‘Anyway, I’m not making any big claims for myself,’ says the narrator Kathy H; this session will investigate how so many of Kazuo Ishiguro’s larger concerns in Never Let Me Go, and in his fiction more broadly, are focused through what his narrators don’t say, or what they tell us obliquely or accidentally, enabling us to think about the stylistic phenomenon of the ‘unreliable’ narrator. We will connect this to Ishiguro’s ongoing interest in what it means to be human, and his attraction to characters who are slightly apart from humanity – looking back to Stevens the butler in his Booker-Prize-winning novel The Remains of the Day (1989), and forward to the ‘Artificial Friend’ at the heart of his most recent novel Klara and the Sun (2021).
Suitable for: Aged 16+ pre-university students studying, or with a possible interest in studying, English Literature and related disciplines. Student groups as well as students and teachers joining individually are very welcome.
For details and to book your place, visit:
https://www.channeltalent.co.uk/event/english-literature-interactive-university-talk-on-never-let-me-go-by-kazuo-ishiguro/