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Notes
1 Ishiguro expresses this idea in many interviews, such as his conversation with Kate Moss (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AfAztKEAj9o), CNN’s interview (https://www.cnn.com/videos/world/2021/03/02/kazuo-ishiguro-klara-and-the-sun-novel-nobel-amanpour.cnn) and The Waterstones Interview (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJUvZHnkfGw).
2 In the rest of this paper, text quotations from Klara and the Sun are accompanied by parenthetical page numbers only.