Kazuo Ishiguro made headlines when he was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in 2017. The Nobel Committee wrote that Ishiguro “who, in novels of great emotional force, has uncovered the abyss beneath our illusory sense of connection with the world.” One of Ishiguro’s most influential works is Never Let Me Go (2005), a dystopic science fiction novel that focusses on the lives of a group of friends who grow up and come to learn that they must give donations – they are clones whose sole purpose is to provide organs for the critically ill.
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Workshopping The Picture of Dorian Gray (by Oscar Wilde)
The Picture of Dorian Gray was scandalous from its very beginning. The magazine that published it had issues with many of the topics and themes of the novel. There was open insinuation of homosexuality, and other amoral acts. Characters’ lives were fictitiously ruined, many committed suicide, and one of the main characters – Basil Hallward (the painter) – was even murdered. Morality in the Victorian era was something that Wilde almost appears to mock – he comes revisits topics of morality and beauty throughout the novel.