The book is set in an imaginary world where Arthurian legend intersects with early medieval British history. The story of Axl and Beatrice is only part of Ishiguro’s fable about memory. Memory, Ishiguro is suggesting, condemns us to lonely individuality. But their memories also separate them from each other.Įach becomes a person with a different story and a separate fate. They gain an understanding of themselves and their relationship. But they discover that it contains betrayal, distrust, loneliness and disappointment as well as times of love and happiness. In the course of their journey their memories return piece by piece until all their past is revealed to them. They believe that memory can forge a bond so unbreakable that even death will not separate them. They believe that memory of their life together will bind them together more surely than their affection for each other. They remember they had a son and they set out to find him.īut their journey is also a quest for lost memories. Their lack of memory is a mist that sometimes lifts sufficiently to give them a glimpse of their past life. But the main characters of the story – an old Briton couple named Axl and Beatrice – have an intimation of what they are missing. If this were all that was to it then Ishiguro’s world would be one where people live like animals and are content because they know nothing else.
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