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Hot take: Our club spent three meetings arguing over the ending of 'Klara and the Sun'
Half of us think Klara's final acceptance was a beautiful, quiet tragedy about love and obsolescence. The other half, myself included, found it frustrating and a bit of a narrative cop-out, like Ishiguro just left us hanging. We're stuck at a total impasse after about six hours of debate. Has any other group actually reached a consensus on this book's conclusion?
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ross.river3mo agoMost Upvoted
Seriously, pizza is the only real consensus.
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tylerr2919d ago
The third meeting is where our group finally landed on Klara's ending as a masterpiece precisely because of that ambiguity. The way she just sort of fades into acceptance without fighting it is the whole point, it shows how love and memory work even when you're being replaced. Ishiguro isn't copping out, he's trusting us to sit with the discomfort of not knowing if she really understood what was happening to her.
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