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A review by nfrsbmschmck
Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
5.0
a vegan’s thoughts:
i doubt very much that kazuo wrote this as any sort of political statement for animal rights, but it is interesting that most people who read this book and feel compassion/grief/outrage on behalf of the Students will finish the book and go eat a hamburger.
this novel gracefully explores how closed everything is from everything else, with a character who is constantly guessing at what others are thinking but rarely confronts the mystery of another’s thoughts, instead ‘reading minds’ or imagining by herself. almost all conflict is due to this dislocation. (tommy’s final scene describing his splashing through water fantasy seems so trivial, but is such a profound offering of himself that no one else knows. that passage hits me hard, every time i read it.)
kathy’s quest for Proof, proof of life and proof of love, ends not in failure but in acceptance that these things cannot be proven, yet we live, we love. the tragedy is being separate from each other; i hope that one day this generosity of openness is allowed to all those creatures who are now caged.
i doubt very much that kazuo wrote this as any sort of political statement for animal rights, but it is interesting that most people who read this book and feel compassion/grief/outrage on behalf of the Students will finish the book and go eat a hamburger.
this novel gracefully explores how closed everything is from everything else, with a character who is constantly guessing at what others are thinking but rarely confronts the mystery of another’s thoughts, instead ‘reading minds’ or imagining by herself. almost all conflict is due to this dislocation. (tommy’s final scene describing his splashing through water fantasy seems so trivial, but is such a profound offering of himself that no one else knows. that passage hits me hard, every time i read it.)
kathy’s quest for Proof, proof of life and proof of love, ends not in failure but in acceptance that these things cannot be proven, yet we live, we love. the tragedy is being separate from each other; i hope that one day this generosity of openness is allowed to all those creatures who are now caged.