ABSTRACT
This chapter begins with analyses of ends, the last page of an Ishiguro novel, Walter Benjamin’s comparison of storytelling with the non-negotiable endings of modern novels, and Francois Truffaut’s conclusion to his film The 400 Blows. Ishiguro’s novels are then referred to traditional Japanese aesthetics and contemporary anime, as well as Proust’s and Benjamin’s ‘storyteller’ essay, in an attempt to reveal the special emotional and atmospheric relationship that Ishiguro’s novels seem to have with time and history.
