The Buried Giant

by Kazuo Ishiguro

The Buried Giant: Genre 1 key example

Genre
Explanation and Analysis:

The Buried Giant is a novel of the fantasy genre. Legendary creatures, including ogres, giants, and dragons, engage often with the human characters and play important roles in the story's development. However, fantastical elements such as the mist, Querig the dragon, ogres, and the mystical island represent universal themes related to human existence: questions of old age, of the nature of love and loss, and of memory manifest in the fantastical world of the novel, yet feature in works of realistic fiction and the real world alike.