It is a novel set up in a world where the ideal of a perfect and long-lasting human being does not work any longer as a constant guiding light for all human actions, within the gap between the ideal itself and reality. ‘Never let me go’, a novel by Kazuo Ishiguro (2005), makes us experience a world of closure, of impossibility, predictability and silence, where each birth cannot mean a new beginning, being instead a moment of repetition, mimicry, fabrication. And this again is possible only because each man is unique, so that with each birth something uniquely new comes into the world.’ (Arendt, 1958: 177–8) This character of startling unexpectedness is inherent in all beginnings … The fact that man is capable of action means that the unexpected can be expected from him, that he is able to perform what is infinitely improbable. ‘It is in the nature of beginning” - she claims - “that something new is started which cannot be expected from whatever may have happened before.
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