★★★★★ 日本人らしいことに閉じ込められた老人のお話。戦時中は当たり前だった自らの言動や日本精神を少しずつ見直す主人公の気持ちの変化。イシグロらしい後悔と哀愁の静かなエレガンス。
★★★★★ Remembering the past, remembering the regrets and hoping for a bright content future. Classic Ishiguro here, perfectly capturing the Japanese sentiment. Elegant.
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🔽 基本情報 🔽
An Artist of the Floating World
Kazuo Ishiguro, 1986
浮世の画家
カズオ・イシグロ
206 pages
2024.07 読了

🔽🔽 読書記録 🔽🔽
過去を思い出し、後悔を思い出し、明るい未来を願う。
イシグロらしさが滲み出す、日本人らしいことに閉じ込められた老人のお話。

老後の静かな生活の中で戦時中の自分を思い返し、当時は当たり前だった日本精神のプライドなどを少しずつ見直す主人公の気持ちの変化は、後悔や哀愁、ノスタルジアをいつもうまく突き刺してくるイシグロらしい静かなエレガントさに包まれている。

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★★★★★ Remembering the past, remembering the regrets and hoping for a bright content future. Classic Ishiguro here, perfectly capturing the Japanese sentiment. Elegant.

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An Artist of the Floating World
Kazuo Ishiguro, 1986
206 pages
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Remembering the past, remembering the regrets and hoping for a bright content future. 
Classic Ishiguro here, with an old man as the protagonist, perfectly capturing the Japanese sentiment. 

He revisits and reviews his life as he gets old, old enough to have others around him die, and slowly sees his mistakes of being too nationalistic, though that was the norm, and for his daughter's sake he acknowledges the mistakes.

Slow and elegant and all you expect from Ishiguro.

Nobel prize winner

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