![]() The persistence of a traumatic event in memory is analysed with reference to Freud’s concepts of mourning and melancholia. ![]() Among the issues addressed in the latter part of the article are the significance of the past in the present, the memory of trauma and the role of misremembering. ![]() The article attempts to explore the metaphorical capacity of the alternative reality of the novel, favouring the interpretation of The Unconsoled as an illustration of certain mechanisms of human memory. The reality surrounding the narrator is examined in terms of a solipsistic projection of his anxiety-ridden psyche. The brief analysis of the dreamlike elements of The Unconsoled is based on the Freudian concepts of displacement and condensation. A brief commentary on the experimental aspects of the novel, as well as on its rather puzzled critical reception, serves to locate it in opposition to Ishiguro’s earlier works, which are possessed of a number of qualities associated with historical realism. It aims to demonstrate that the peculiarly malleable world constructed in the novel can be interpreted as an alternative reality, governed by the logic of a dream narrative. ![]() ![]() This article is a study of Kazuo Ishiguro’s The Unconsoled in the light of the concept of alternative construal. ![]()
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