The extended discussion on memory right after the ' memory boom ' in the 90 ' s provides a niche to further investigation into Ishiguro ' s novels which uses memory not only as a narrative style but also as a device, as a technique and even as the unavoidable cause of the eventuality of the narrative texture. This article aims at briefly introducing the discourse on memory studies right from the ancient times with reference to both the western: Aristotle, Locke, Habwalchs, Freud, Rossington, etc as well as eastern trends of enquiry: the Vedic literature. The Booker winning novelist Kazuo Ishiguro deals with the various nuances of memory with special references to the unconscious, trauma, forgetting, rewriting memory and unreliability of the narrative/narrator in his novels. Memory studies have always been very intrinsic to the study of literature. The remaining Britons were puzzled as soon as their last It is a time when the Romans had left the British islands and the Saxons were invading the territory. There are monsters, ogres and, dragons lurking at its bleak and shaggy background. Kazuo Ishiguro's novel of a decade, The Buried Giant, published in 2015, is constructed loosely on the Arthurian legend. The paper's objectives also include examining 'narratology' in an extended periphery of signification where Modern and Postmodern essences are narrated behind the veil of a simple story telling pattern. The present paper is an exploration of Kazuo Ishiguro's The Buried Giant where Modern and Postmodern experiences are intertwined with mythical and legendary sensibilities to produce an indecisive déjà vu for the reader. It is a land of socio-cultural and political idealism that does not exist anymore. With myths and legends, readers are waded back to a distant land where history fades into fantasy. Set on such a land where history fades into fantasy Ishiguro's narrative has a mysterious 'mist' of forgetfulness creating fragmented memories and perplexities among the dwellers. Ishiguro's novel is a voyage back to a time when the Romans were leaving the British island and the Saxons were invading on the remaining relics of the preceding civilization.

Based loosely upon the Arthurian legend the novel moves swiftly between love, loyalty, faith and longing for life. Kazuo Ishiguro's novel of a decade, The Buried Giant, published in 2015, is a 'quest' of an elderly couple, the two Britons, Axl and Beatrice.

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