Year: 2016
Type: article
Abstract: This article considers as a Bildungsroman the 2005 novel Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro, which depicts the education of young clones in a boarding school in a 1990s uchronic England.It studies the main theoretical works about this type of writing in order to isolate some of its defining characteristics and then evaluate the possibility of an analogy between the fictional developments of humans and clones.It concludes that, even though the Bildunsgroman has strong ties with the changing nineteenth-century society, it has been adapted to other -even non-existing -environments.
Author: Carole Guesse
Institution: University of Liège
Language: English
Subfield: Literature and Literary Theory
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
SDG: Quality education
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2581337616