Kazuo Ishiguro’s
The Buried Giant(2015) marked a departure for the author as his first novel to be classified by many as fantasy, depicting characters taken from the legend of King Arthur. The work’s importance has emerged largely from the questions it raises about the boundaries between literary fiction and various fantasy genres.
The Buried Giant is Ishiguro’s seventh novel and was released at a time when the author was well-recognised as a Booker-prize winner and the writer behind two popular novels, The Remains of the Day (1989) and Never Let Me Go (2005), which had been adapted into films. Regarded as a writer of literary fiction, publishers Faber and Faber released the book under the category Original Fiction; however, the American publisher Random House gave it two
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Citation: Trimarco, Paola. "The Buried Giant". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 18 January 2017 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=35615, accessed 20 April 2024.]
