An Artist of the Floating World
Kazuo Ishiguro, 1986
UK
206 pages
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🔽 Intro and review summary 🔽
✔ Early Ishiguro
✔ Japanese sentiment after the war
✔ An old man's struggle to face the change of the society
★★★★★ Remembering the past, remembering the regrets and hoping for a bright content future. Classic Ishiguro here, perfectly capturing the Japanese sentiment. Elegant.
🔽 Book review and notes 🔽
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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An Artist of the Floating World
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