Dignidade, nação e tradição : uma leitura através da fisionomia intelectual do personagem em The Remains of the Day de Kazuo Ishiguro

Abstract

This thesis investigates the work of the Japanese-British author Kazuo Ishiguro, The Remains of The Day, originally published in 1989. It has title translated into Portuguese as Waste the Day and Remains of the Day (Brazil) and Remains of the Day (Portugal). This study proposes an investigation into how figures of the nation and the English tradition are expressed in the narrative by what the theorist Georgy Luckács called intellectual physiognomy of the character-protagonist. This thesis are covered throughout this work the contributions of interpretative hypothesis of intellectual physiognomy from the figure an unreliable narrator, as pointed out by Zuzana Foniokova (2006). In addition, during the Stevens Butler trajectory significance of space "Darlington Hall" composes with the protagonist a series of speeches that were assessed as rhetorical elements that functioned as a metaphor of tradition and national identity. To better understand the novel by Ishiguro within a broader strategy of criticism of the English tradition in literature in the second chapter we have made a comparison with the short story The Canterville Ghost Irish writer Oscar Wilde. The purpose of this comparison was to investigate the construction of the discourse of the English nation tradition in their narratives that establish the representation of the English country mansion Darlington Hall the work of Ishiguro, and Canterville Chase, the Wilde tale.