Linguocultural Units’ Represeantation in “the Buried Giant” by Kazuro Ishiguro

• Zarina Rakhmatova

  II year master student of Samarkand State Institute of Foreign Languages

This article analyses the representation of linguocultural units in Kazuo Ishiguro’s novel “The Buried Giant”, examining how the author uses symbols, motifs, and language to reflect cultural identity, memory, and history. The novel blends British historical and mythical elements with Japanese aesthetic principles, resulting in a “neomyth” that reshapes traditional myths in a contemporary context. Through a detailed analysis, the study highlights key symbols such as the Saxons and Britons, King Arthur, Merlin, and the boatman, showing how these elements contribute to the narrative’s exploration of memory, forgetting, and the human condition. This work also addresses the cultural tensions between the Saxons and Britons, as well as the philosophical themes of memory, loss, and cultural identity.

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