Memory, Amnesia and Forgiveness: Humanistic Reflection in The Buried Giant

As a masterpiece of internationalist writing, Kazuo Ishiguro's novel The Buried Giant exposes, on the basis of memory, the dilemma of the individual and national identity in the mist of amnesia. By rethinking the historical events, Kazuo Ishiguro reconstructs the identity through the fragmental memory, and expresses his literary ethical reflection on the human predicament of existence in the process of memory, amnesia and forgiveness. In this way, Kazuo Ishiguro shows his humanistic concern about a community of shared future for mankind in the context of globalization.