Abstract
ABSTRACT The first four works of the Japanese-British novelist Kazuo Ishiguro were all ghost stories, and they are crucial to shaping his signature unreliable narratives and writing of memory. Based on the unpublished draft of A Pale View of Hills and the related ghost stories in his film documentary scripts in the exclusive Kazuo Ishiguro Archive at Austin, this paper traces Ishiguro’s development of the way in which the narrator of his debut novel is seen as a ghost in her own narrative from the initial idea to the penultimate and final drafts. It reveals how Ishiguro borrows features of modern Japanese ghost stories to develop a haunting story framed in complex narrative filters that essentially inform A Pale View of Hills and Klara and the Sun.
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