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In Understanding Kazuo Ishiguro, Brian W. Shaffer provides the first critical survey of the life and work of the Booker Prize-winning author of The Remains of the Day. One of the most closely followed British writers of his generation, the Japanese-born, English-raised and -educated Ishiguro is the author of six critically acclaimed novels, including A Pale View of Hills (1982, Winifred Holtby Prize of the Royal Society of Literature), An Artist of the Floating World (1986, Whitbread Book of the Year Award), The Remains of the Day (1988, Booker Prize), and The Unconsoled (1995, Cheltenham Prize). Ishiguro's reputation also extends beyond the world of English-language readers. His work has been translated into twenty-seven foreign languages, and the feature film version of The Remains of the Day was nominated for eight Academy Awards.
Shaffer's study reveals Ishiguro's novels to be intricately crafted, psychologically absorbing, hauntingly evocative works that betray the author's grounding not only in the literature of Japan but also in the great twentieth-century British masters-Joseph Conrad, Ford Madox Ford, E. M. Forster, and James Joyce-as well as in Freudian psychoanalysis. All of Ishiguro's novels are shown to capture first-person narrators in the intriguing act of revealing-yet also of attempting to conceal beneath the surface of their mundane present activities-the alarming significance and troubling consequences of their past lives.
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Joey Camacho
reviewed Understanding Kazuo Ishiguro on September 02, 2013
Understanding Kazuo Ishiguro
This short little book analyzes Ishiguro's first four novels: A Pale View Of Hills, An Artist of the Floating World, The Remains of the Day, and The Unconsoled.
Ishiguro "attempts to avoid openly postmodern elements in his books; he seeks to avoid the trap of writing novels that can be taken as meditations on 'the nature of fiction.' ...He says that "the kind of book whose raison d'etre is to say something about literary form [is] very tedious...I''m only interested in literary experiment insofar as it serves a purpose of exploring certain themes with an emotional dimension. I always try to disguise those elements of my writing that I feel perhaps are experimental." ... "Rather, Ishiguro appears to be more interested in tackling and reworking his culture's dominant myths, in communicating a vision, and in exploring what 'is perhaps the scariest arena in life,' the 'emotional area.'" [pp. 10-11]
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