Kazuo Ishiguro in his novel The Buried Giant (2015) points out the old political debate between the Saxons and the Britons and the amnesia that the whole society in which Axl and Beatrice live suffers from. At fictional level, the characters whose memories are erased are not only in search of their lost memories, which are hidden in a ‘mist’ that covers their way and their minds, but they are also in search of the hidden realities that affect the whole country. Indeed the mist is the breath of the dragon that is buried and not to be awakened. The Buried Giant, the dragon, symbolizes the people’s suppressed sorrows that they wish they had never experienced. In this regard, when the old couple begins looking for the reason of their forgetfulness, they reveal the “buried” realities. In fact, the reason of this sorrow is ruling class just beside them. At fictional level, Louis Althusser’s “ideological state apparatuses” concept is presented to the reader through the ruling class who uses the dragon to erase people’s sad war memories. Within the context of Marxist literary criticism, this paper deals with people’s past that they are obliged to forget as a result of betrayal, distrust, loneliness, disappointment and political pressure.

Keywords: Ishiguro, Identity, Memory, Politics, Marxist Criticism