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Understanding Kazuo Ishiguro / Brian W. Shaffer.

By: Language: English Series: Understanding contemporary British literaturePublisher: 2008Publisher: Columbia, S.C. University of South Carolina Press, 2008, c1998Description: 146 p. 21 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781570037948
  • 1570037949
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 823.914 23/swe
LOC classification:
  • PR6059.S5
Other classification:
  • HN 4775
Contents:
Understanding Kazuo Ishiguro -- A pale view of hills -- An artist of the floating world -- The remains of the day -- The unconsoled.
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This is a comprehensive guide to the life and work of the 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.Brian W. 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 and Irish 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.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [135]-141) and index.

Understanding Kazuo Ishiguro -- A pale view of hills -- An artist of the floating world -- The remains of the day -- The unconsoled.