Clara and the Sun is a novel based on artificial intelligence,written by Japanese British novelist Kazuo Ishiguro after winning the 2018 Nobel Prize in Literature.This work blurs the strict boundary between humans and non-humans,placing robots and humans in a technologically advanced post human era.The work adopts a"non-human"narrative and observes the challenges and problems brought to humanity by the highly developed technology of the post human era from the perspective of Clara,a unique robot AF.This article aims to use narrative theory to analyze the narrative art in Clara and the Sun,and explore the eternal themes in liter-ature such as love and human heart,selfishness and deception,class,and human destiny through unique narrative perspectives,voic-es,unreliable narratives,unfamiliarity narratives,conceptual metaphors,etc.,to alert humanity to think about interpersonal alienation,ethics and morality,social inequality,and other issues brought about by technological progress.
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