Kazuo Ishiguro’s Klara and the Sun: A Posthumanist Anatomization

Abstract

Kazuo Ishiguro’s eighth novel Klara and the Sun is a quintessence to manifest Ishiguro’s power when he tactfully explored the new arena of technology that encompasses Artificial Intelligence and Gene Editing. The novel stands as a test of time to prove Ishiguro’s humanitarianism in the post era of pandemic. While transhumanism is on the rise, the society is in a great flux across the globe with speedy technology that marches to post humanist epoch. It is a watershed moment to wake up to the fact that breakthrough in technology has mixed blessings and albeit the high fidelity world provides sophisticated artificial intelligence to aid human existence, still there are certain things a machine has less competence doing. The article aims to give a panoramic view of how the novel foreshadows post anthropocentric world where it questions the identity of human dignity and how with the leading edge of technology viz. gene editing to push the frontier of the human excellence for the maximum reap will come home to roost.