Статтю присвячено дослідженню наративних стратегій та інтермедіальної поетики роману
К. Ішіґуро “Прозорий серпанок над горами” (1982). Особливу увагу зосереджено на наративних
прийомах, художніх і лексичних засобах, що акцентують на ненадійності наратора. Також
виокремлено ознаки японської естетики (ідеться про лаконічність та аудіовізуальність). До того
ж у статті висвітлено ряд художніх ефектів і наративних прийомів, що уподібнюють твір К. Ішіґуро
до мистецтва кінематографу.
The current paper explores the narrative strategies and poetics of intermediality in Kazuo Ishiguro’s
first novel “A Pale View of Hills” (1982). Particular attention is paid to the notions of narrative unreliability
and subjectivity exemplified by the ambiguous first-person narrative in the novel. The researcher
focuses on the narrative techniques, as well as on the numerous lexical and other literary means
that emphasize the unreliability of the narrator, who is also the protagonist. It allows revealing the
hidden emotions and tendency to self-deceit. In addition, the paper traces the features of Japanese
aesthetics and literature in the novel. The most peculiar among them are concise verbal expression,
lack of emotion, and audiovisuality, which is primary concentration of the narrative on the visual
and auditory images, rather than on the characters’ internal psychological processes. A range of
narrative strategies and special literary effects in “A Pale View of Hills”, being characteristic for the
art of cinematography, make the novel a vivid example of the cinematographic (cinematic) literature,
which requires a different, more image-oriented perception of the reader. Among such techniques,
the most notable are the enhanced symbolism of sensual images; revealing the characters’ actual
feelings and thoughts through their non-verbal language and dialogues; fragmented and elliptic nature
of the narrative that resembles the technique of montage; and the plasticity of chronotope, which is
represented by the active use of flashbacks in the novel.
