Kazuo Ishiguro

Cynthia F. Wong

Kazuo Ishiguro

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A new edition of the first full-length study of contemporary British writer Kazuo Ishiguro and his works, up to 2005. This book explores his uses of memory and its unreliability in narrative, his manipulations of desire and how humans reinterpret worlds from which they feel estranged. All of his works are eloquent expressions of people struggling with the silence of pain and the awkward stutters of confusion and loss. This book examines his subtle and ironic portrayals of people in emotional bereavement and it situates Ishiguro as an important international novelist by looking at his constructions of personal and political histories. Best known for the Booker Prize-winning and Merchant-Ivory film adaptation of The Remains of the Day, Ishiguro continues his formal experimentation in narrative voice with subsequent work and emphasises the necessary, yet futile, spirit that envelops many of his characters.

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Frontmatter
pp i-iv

Contents
pp v-v

Acknowledgements
pp vi-vi

Preface to the New Edition
pp vii-viii

Biographical Outline
pp ix-xi

Abbreviations and References
pp xii-xiv

Introduction
pp 1-6

1 - Ishiguro as an International Writer
pp 7-14

2 - Reading the Novels
pp 15-26

3 - Narrative and Memory: A Pale View of Hills
pp 27-37

4 - Deflecting Truth in Memory: An Artist of the Floating World
pp 38-51

5 - Disclosure and ‘Unconcealment’: The Remains of the Day
pp 52-65

6 - Seizing Comprehension: The Unconsoled
pp 66-80

7 - Odd Failures of Guardianship in When We Were Orphans and Never Let Me Go
pp 81-103

Notes
pp 104-117

Select Bibliography
pp 118-126

Index
pp 127-129

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