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Klara and the Sun: A novel di Kazuo Ishiguro
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Klara and the Sun: A novel (edizione 2021)

di Kazuo Ishiguro (Autore)

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"From her place in the store that sells artificial friends, Klara--an artificial friend with outstanding observational qualities--watches carefully the behavior of those who come in to browse, and of those who pass in the street outside. She remains hopeful a customer will soon choose her, but when the possibility emerges that her circumstances may change forever, Klara she is warned not to invest too much in the promises of humans. In this luminous tale, Klara and the Sun, Nobel Prize winner Kazuo Ishiguro looks at our rapidly changing modern world through the eyes of an unforgettable narrator to explore a fundamental question: what does it mean to love?"--… (altro)
Utente:Charvet
Titolo:Klara and the Sun: A novel
Autori:Kazuo Ishiguro (Autore)
Info:Knopf (2021), 320 pages
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Etichette:Novels/United Kingdom

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Is marked as dystopia on story graph but this most definitely is not. Some horrific ideas but in the end the story of Klara and her relationship to the sun is beautiful and endearing ( )
  highlandcow | Mar 13, 2024 |
In some ways this storywas a combination of Puff the Magic Dragon and the dystopian world of Terminator where the machines have taken over. But the extent of the dystopia is never made clear. It is hinted at by the formation of defensive communities and the need for people to arm themselves against social breakdown. But I could not fully comprehend the full significance of the kindly Manager limping off at the scrap yard with her bag of trinkets. The failure of Klara to destroy the Cootings machines and the sacrifice that the attempt entailed raises more questions than answers – as does almost everything described in the world Ishiguro creates in this book.
But the compulsion to read on increased as the tale unfolded in unexpected directions. Even at the beginning when new models appeared in the show room, it was clear that things would not end well. I liked that Klara’s unfailing politeness and patience become character flaws in that they emphasise her lack if humanity.

Certainly, the use of a perceptive ingenue to show us human foibles is a well-used device, but many were the descriptions where I simply could not understand what was going on and why the humans were reacting the way Klara saw them. For this reason, I found the book enjoyable in its twists and turns and clever reversals but ultimately unsatisfactory.

I wonder what the risky practice of lifting involves?
( )
  simonpockley | Feb 25, 2024 |
Odd, it seems to me, that a perceptive humanoid robot capable of tutoring teenagers in advanced physics would sincerely view the sun as a Sun God, even if it is solar powered. I’m not too up on ancient Egyptian worship and beliefs surrounding Ra, but I’m guessing Klara’s religious beliefs (can a robot come to its own religious beliefs???) as described here are a melding of ancient Sun God worship and the modern belief in a personal, interventionist God who can be influenced through believers’ prayers:

I could understand that for all his kindness, the Sun was very busy; that there were many people besides Josie who required his attention; that even the Sun could be expected to miss individual cases like Josie, especially if she appeared well looked after by a mother, a housekeeper and an AF. The idea came into my mind, then, that for her to receive the Sun’s special help, it might be necessary to draw his attention to Josie’s situation in some particular and noticeable way.


Klara’s religious views - never described as religious as such but clearly they are a belief in the sun as a God which can be silently prayed to, bargained with, promises made to in exchange for special intervention, etc. - are the most interesting thing to me about this novel, which may be an uncommon take and not the main point of the thing, but nevertheless. Klara views the sun as an interventionist God she could pray to for help. That’s wild. There’s no hint that is in her programming. The understanding of advanced science she’s credited with didn’t stop her holding this view. Hmm.

Bill Gates wrote a post a couple of months ago about this book which included this musing: “In A Thousand Brains, Jeff Hawkins explores at length what moral obligation we have to our machines. Should we feel bad about pulling the plug on an artificial intelligence if it’s as human-like as Klara? Hawkins concludes that the answer is no. I agree with him, although I can imagine a future where other people might not.”

If our future humanoid robots are coming to religious beliefs on their own, then yeah, I’m thinking I wouldn’t be able to think of them just as machines (‘vacuum cleaners’ in a parallel a character in the novel makes) and not feel bad about pulling their plugs. There’s something just way too human about that. ( )
  lelandleslie | Feb 24, 2024 |
The “Sun’s special nourishment” seemed provided by Ishiguro himself; shining a light on the lonely, lending warmth to the hopeful, and ending it all in a soft orange haze. Klara’s observations on human connection are perfectly, kindly delivered.
  hannerwell | Feb 24, 2024 |
Excellent and beautifully told story of an android coming to terms with the living. Or is it the other way round? ( )
  ben_r47 | Feb 22, 2024 |
In de licht dystopische roman voert Ishiguro een balanseer act uit op de rand van kitch. Hij slaagt er echter op een uitzonderlijke wijze in om in evenwicht te blijven. Klara en de zon is een zeer geslaagde, enigszins verontrustende en gelaagde nieuwe roman van de meesterverteller en Nobelprijswinnaar…lees verder>
 
Most of Ishiguro’s novels are slender books that are more complicated than they at first seem; Klara and the Sun is by contrast more simple than it seems, less novel than parable. Though much is familiar here—the restrained language, the under-stated first-person narration—the new book is much more overt than its predecessors about its concerns.... Ishiguro is unsentimental—indeed, one of the prevailing criticisms of him is that he’s too cold, his novels overly designed, his language detached. (Some of the worst writing on Ishiguro ascribes this to his being Japanese, overlooking that he’s lived in England since he was a small child.) In most hands, this business of the mother-figure who sacrifices all for a child would be mawkish. Here it barely seems like metaphor. Every parent has at times felt like an automaton. Every parent has pleaded with some deity for the safety of their child. Every parent is aware of their own, inevitable obsolescence. And no child can offer more than Josie’s glib goodbye, though perhaps Ishiguro wants to; the book is dedicated to his mother.
 
It explores many of the subjects that fill our news feeds, from artificial intelligence to meritocracy. Yet its real political power lies not in these topical references but in its quietly eviscerating treatment of love. Through Klara, Josie, and Chrissie, Ishiguro shows how care is often intertwined with exploitation, how love is often grounded in selfishness ... this book focuses on those we exploit primarily for emotional labor and care work—a timely commentary during a pandemic in which the essential workers who care for us are too often treated as disposable ... If Never Let Me Go demonstrates how easily we can exploit those we never have to see, Klara and the Sun shows how easily we can exploit even those we claim to love ... a story as much about our own world as about any imagined future, and it reminds us that violence and dehumanization can also come wrapped in the guise of love.
 
... the real power of this novel: Ishiguro’s ability to embrace a whole web of moral concerns about how we navigate technological advancements, environmental degradation and economic challenges even while dealing with the unalterable fact that we still die.... tales of sensitive robots determined to help us survive our self-destructive impulses are not unknown in the canon of science fiction. But Ishiguro brings to this poignant subgenre a uniquely elegant style and flawless control of dramatic pacing. In his telling, Klara’s self-abnegation feels both ennobling and tragic.
 
Critics often note Ishiguro’s use of dramatic irony, which allows readers to know more than his characters do. And it can seem as if his narrators fail to grasp the enormity of the injustices whose details they so meticulously describe. But I don’t believe that his characters suffer from limited consciousness. I think they have dignity. Confronted by a complete indifference to their humanity, they choose stoicism over complaint. We think we grieve for them more than they grieve for themselves, but more heartbreaking is the possibility that they’re not sure we differ enough from their overlords to understand their true sorrow. And maybe we don’t, and maybe we can’t. Maybe that’s the real irony, the way Ishiguro sticks in the shiv.... In Klara and the Sun, Ishiguro leaves us suspended over a rift in the presumptive order of things. Whose consciousness is limited, ours or a machine’s? Whose love is more true? If we ever do give robots the power to feel the beauty and anguish of the world we bring them into, will they murder us for it or lead us toward the light?
 

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Shizuko Ishiguro
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"From her place in the store that sells artificial friends, Klara--an artificial friend with outstanding observational qualities--watches carefully the behavior of those who come in to browse, and of those who pass in the street outside. She remains hopeful a customer will soon choose her, but when the possibility emerges that her circumstances may change forever, Klara she is warned not to invest too much in the promises of humans. In this luminous tale, Klara and the Sun, Nobel Prize winner Kazuo Ishiguro looks at our rapidly changing modern world through the eyes of an unforgettable narrator to explore a fundamental question: what does it mean to love?"--

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