![]() ![]() Because after all, characters in books are artificial. It shouldn't be that surprising, really, though, that an artificial creature could actually solicit our sympathies as much as a human one. On sympathizing with Klara, despite her being an A.I. ![]() I wanted her to remain a very optimistic character who has a childlike faith in the presence of something good and protective in the world - even as she learns all these other things, darker things about the human world that she occupies. I wanted some of that childlike freshness and openness and naivety to survive all the way through the text in her. She's like a tabula rasa at the beginning, and she's quite childlike and very open. Klara was especially interesting for me because she doesn't bring any baggage with her. On why he wanted his narrator to be an artificial person ![]()
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