Author(s)

Hanqi Wu ¹

Affiliation(s)

¹ Institute of Foreign Languages, Guangdong University of Finance and Economics, Guanzhou District, Guangzhou, Guangdong Province, China

Corresponding Author

Hanqi Wu

ABSTRACT

Come Rain or Come Shine is the second story in a collection of short stories Nocturnes: Five Stories of Music and Nightfall written by British-Japanese author Kazuo Ishiguro. This novel tells the story of Raymond staging a farce in the home of his old friends Charlie and Emily. Based on the theory of Spatial Criticism, this paper explores the artistic expression and ideological connotation of the concept of space in Come Rain or Come Shine from the three aspects: the confusion in physical space, the struggle in social space and the loss in psychological space, and reveals the tragic core of this farce, and finds that "space" and sense of distance presented by the author Kazuo Ishiguro in his works are related to his own identity as an immigrant writer and his early life experiences and ideas. Encouraging everyone to find their own space is the main idea that Kazuo Ishiguro is trying to convey in Come Rain or Come Shine.

KEYWORDS

Come Rain or Come Shine, Spatial Criticism, Kazuo Ishiguro, Space

CITE THIS PAPER

Hanqi Wu, An Analysis of Come Rain or Come Shine from the Perspective of Spatial Criticism. Lecture Notes on Language and Literature (2024) Vol. 7: 43-50. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.23977/langl.2024.070407.

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